Year: 2015
Type: other
Abstract: This literature review forms part of QAA's ongoing work designed to provide resources to support higher education providers and others interested in the quality of MOOCs, and to promote the sharing of practice.This work includes the development of a toolkit, which will be designed to demonstrate how the UK Quality Code for Higher Education can be used by providers to assist in addressing questions of quality assurance and enhancement in relation to all aspects of MOOCs, whether design, approval, delivery and assessment, including assessment for the recognition of prior learning.This is not about creating additional hurdles or burdens for providers but about showing how existing principles of sound practice, agreed by the sector, can be applied to this developing area of provision to inform practice, benefiting providers, students and other stakeholders.I am grateful to Sarah for her work in producing the review, engaging with an extensive number of sources and highlighting the range of debates that they reflect.I also want to acknowledge the work of Natalja Sokorevica (Development Officer in Standards, Quality and Enhancement) for her editing of the review, and to both Natalja and Cathy Kerfoot (Assistant Director in Standards, Quality and Enhancement) for facilitating the MOOCs Network. Dr Tim Burton Head of Standards, Quality and Enhancement MassiveMassive with infinite scalability.However, there are some associated technological costs, such as bandwidth and back up for institutions to be aware of.Downes (2014) suggests the massive element applies not to the success of the MOOC in attracting many people, but to 'the design elements that make educating many people possible'.He emphasises that: 'to educate is to do more than merely deliver content, and more than merely support interaction, for otherwise the movie theatre and the telephone system are, respectively, MOOCs'. OpenOpen with no prerequisites for participants other than access to a computer or mobile device and the internet.Coursera owns rights to the materials, so they cannot be reused without permission.Material may be removed when the course ends.Coursera decides which institutions can host MOOCs on its platform, while edX is an open source platform.Any institution that joins edX can develop their own MOOCs and rules regarding rights to the material (Bates, 2014). OnlineWhile MOOCs are offered initially completely online, increasingly institutions are negotiating to use MOOC materials in a blended format for use on campus.The institution provides learner support for the materials through campus-based instructors, for example at San Jose State University on-campus students use MOOC materials from Udacity courses, such as lectures, readings and quizzes, and then instructors spend classroom time on small group activities, projects and quizzes to check participant progress (Bates, 2014).
Source: Research Space
Author: Sarah Hayes
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Science Applications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2552844580