Lesson 1
Massive Open
Online Course
(MOOC)
group 2
The 21st century has seen significant
technological advancements that have
transformed how we access and transmit
information. Traditional printed materials like
books and journals have largely been
replaced by their digital counterparts. People
now rely on credible websites and how-to
videos on platforms like YouTube, found
through search engines such as Google,
Yahoo, and Bing. This shift has also impacted
education, moving from traditional
MOOC is an acronym for Massive
Massive Open Open Online Course.The
word“massive”
Online Course means large number or amount,
“open”
(MOOC) means accessible to all, “online”
means connected to or available
through a system, and “course”
means the act of moving in a path
from point to point. Therefore,
MOOC refers to a route or pattern
of getting a content or information
available through an online
system that can be accessed by
many people. MOOC is also
described as a pattern for
MOOCs are asynchronous web-based
courses geared towards enabling
Massive Open several hundreds of students all over
the world to enroll and learn from top
Online Course world-renowned academic institutions
at the same time. MOOCs deliver
(MOOC) content via recorded video lectures,
online readings, and online
assessments, with various degrees of
studentstudent and student-instructor
interactions. Many MOOC-providers
offer free courses, which entice more
people to enroll. There are MOOCs
that provide certificates of completion
to the students; however, most of
them do not count for college credit.
The concept of MOOC was invented in
2008 by Dave Cormier, from the
The learning material or video
Massive Open content used in an MOOC is created
by an educational institution, usually
Online Course a university or a college that offers
(MOOC) such programs. The organization
and administration operation of an
MOOC are coordinated by active
MOOC platforms (e.g. Coursera and
edX). MOOCs were created from the
idea of covering an entire university
course online and thereby making it
accessible to everyone in the world.
The intent was to "democratize"
educational content from elite
universities.
TYPES OF MASSIVE 1. xMOOCs
OPEN ONLINE
COURSE (MOOC) xMOOC stands for eXtended MOOC. xMOOCs are
based on traditional university course structures
and make use of established teaching
approaches and materials.
Students will watch pre-recorded lectures,
complete required readings, and participate in
discussions as produced and managed by a
course instructor or an instructional team from a
higher education institution. These are typically
self-contained and rarely utilize content external
2. cMOOCs
TYPES OF MASSIVE
cMOOC stands for Connectivist MOOC.
OPEN ONLINE
cMOOCs are based on the connectivist
COURSE (MOOC)
learning model that favors collaboration
among learners as a form of active learning.
Students in cMOOC work together to locate,
evaluate, and contribute to the course content
by uploading materials in the form of tweets,
blog posts, wikis and others, to the course
using the learning platform. A cMOOC
instructor or instructional team facilitates
learning by finalizing, aggregating, and
The following table illustrates the
conceptual differences between cMOOCs
and
XMOOCs.
Advantages of Massive Open Online
Course (MOOC)
MOOC can be taken by anyone who is
1. RELAX REQUIREMENTS
interested in the subject matter and able to
access the course, regardless of age,
2.VIDEO FORMAT background,
Teaching in aor location.
modern video format (not just
AVAILABILITY texts like those that you'd find in other e-
learning courses).
learning content from top universities like
3. ACCESSIBILITY Harvard, Stanford, etc. can be opened through
online format.
MOOC will often run two or three times a year,
4. REPETITION
ensuring that students would not miss their
chance.
5. HIGH QUALITY MOOCs are led by subject matter experts
(SMEs) and supported by teaching assistants,
so that students have access to first-rate
an MOOC usually requires 1-2 hours of study a
6. FEASIBILITY
week for about 5 weeks, making learning
doable even for busy students.
7. SELF-PACED MOOC enables students to work through the
course materials and assessments at their
own pace,
8. ONLINE learners across the globe work together on
COLLABORATION common goals without the need to meet each
other in person.
What are some MOOC
here are already platforms?
thousands of MOOCs from countless providers worldwide. Here
are the top MOOC platforms.
Coursera has over 20 million learners/participants. Courses were created by the
niversities of Stanford, Princeton, Yale, London, Munich, Zurich, and many more.
b. EdX has around 10 million learners/participants. Courses were created from
Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, and Oxford, among others.
. Udacity is created as an MOOC platform at Stanford. Now mostly programming
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