2. WHAT IS MOOC?
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a recent development in distance
education.It is an online course that is open to everyone where participation is
unlimited and it can be accessed via the web.Mooc provides traditional course
materials e.g videos and readings.Through MOOCs students and educators are
able to interact with one another.
3. THE PROS AND CONS
ADVANTAGES
MOOCs are free. Right now, most MOOCs are free or nearly free, a definite plus
for the student.
MOOCS are usually short, an hour at the most and they address one topic at a
time which gives professors a chance to examine every bit of material as well as
their teaching methods.
Are designed to ensure that students keep up. MOOCS also have tests and
assignments like real collages. They mostly have multiple choice questions and
the online testing mechanism explains the right response when students miss an
answer, and it lets them see the reasoning behind the correct choice when they're
right.
4. DISADVANTAGES
discussion is a challenge. It’s impossible to facilitate meaningful conversation in a
classroom with 150,000 students. There are electronic alternatives: message
boards, forums, chat rooms, etc., but the intimacy of face-to-face communication is
lost, emotions often misunderstood.
It is easier for students to drop out. Students find it easier to drop out because
sometimes the whole studying online thing may sometimes feel unreal for other
students
Also grading of papers is a challenge for professors as grading thousands of papers
may be too much work
Stedents miss the collage experience as well as interacting with their peers.
5. ASSESSMENTS
Assessments[edit]
Assessment can be the most difficult activity to conduct online, and online assessments
can be quite different from the traditional assessments
The two most common methods of MOOC assessment are machine-graded multiplechoice quizzes or tests and peer-reviewed written assignments.
Peer review is often based upon sample answers or rubrics, which guide the grader on how
many points to award different answers.
Special techniques such as adaptive testing may be used, where the test tailors itself given
the student's previous answers, giving harder or easier questions accordingly.
