Alaa A. AlDahdouh PhD student

Aldahdouh, A. A., & Osório, A. J. (2016). PLANNING TO DESIGN MOOC? THINK FIRST! The Online Journal of Distance Education and E-Learning, 4(2), 47–57.

António J. Osório Professor

Planning to Design MOOC? Think First!

What is MOOC?

MassiveOpen

OnlineCourse(s)

200k150k

50k No Constrain

ts

Introduction

Questions

■What are the problems with MOOC? Is it really that MOOC has many drawbacks which prevent its adoption?

Methods■Qualitative Content

Analysis

MethodsBlogs

Witnesses

Researchers

feedback

Journal Articles

Discussions

Methods

Connectivism

MOOC Types

MOOC Problem

s

Results

Adoption Models

xMOOC

cMOOC SPOC

Results■cMOOC: connectivist MOOC

LMS

■Blended Learning■Got Certificates

■Online Learning■No Certificate

Results■xMOOC: eXtension of academic stuff as MOOC

MOOC provid

ers

■Online Learning■No Certificate

MOOC Partners

■Instructivist Design

Results■SPOC: small private online course

■ Blended Learning■ Got Certificates

■Online Learning■No Certificate

MOOC Provid

ers

Results■MOOC Issues:

Dropout Rate

Accreditation

Business Model

Reputation

Research Ethics

PedagogyStudent AssessmentLanguage Barrier

Results■Dropout Rate: 90%

- A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior - Started in 2013-03-25 for 8 weeks~142k ~4k

■ Most students have not intention to complete the course. They are trying to find something about the content, and move on to something else.

Results■Accreditation:

We grant student a credit upon

completing a

degree.

I worked hard and completed the

course. I deserve to have a certificate,

don’t I?

What if I complete a group of related MOOCs? Would I

have a certificate?

Results■Business Model:

■ Building a successful functional and financial design of MOOC provider.

One high quality: xMOOC ~= $250kSomeone should pay?

■Donors■MOOC Partners■MOOC Providers

Open Source

Financial Model

LinkedIn

ApacheLinux

Results■Pedagogy:

■Heterogeneous spectrum of students.

■Old style of teaching may not be suited for online students.

■Serious Games is option.

■Narrow down the participants.

•Connectivist approach•Connection is the most

important.•Content is build on

students’ activities

cMOOC

•Constructivist approach.•The course is planned in

advance. •Content includes short

video and recommended article,

xMOOC

Results■Assessment:

■ How can we evaluate 100,000 of students enrolled in one course?

■ How can we limit fraud and impersonation?

■ Face recognition.■ Writing pattern.

•No rigid assessment.cMOO

C•Assessment

using AutoGrader.

xMOOC

Results■Language Barrier:

■ Coursera was offering 1587MOOCs

in English while offering only 2 and

27 courses in Arabic and Portuguese.■ Building platform in other

languages: Arabic (Rwaq, Edraak). ■ MOOC 2.0

Analysis■What are the problems with MOOC?

■ 8 considerable■ Controllable ■ Interrelated issues

MOOC

Dropout rate

Accreditation

Assessment

Pedagogy

Reputation

Research Ethics

Language Barrier

Business Model

Analysis■Conflicting ideas■Massiveness has no value

(Bartolomé and Steffens, 2015)

■Massiveness is the great idea (Milligan et al., 2013)

Analysis■xMOOC vs cMOOC

This issue is threat

This issue is opportunity

Aldahdouh, A. A., & Osório, A. J. (2016). Planning To Design Mooc? Think First! The Online Journal of Distance Education and E-Learning, 4(2), 47–57. Retrieved from http://www.tojdel.net/journals/tojdel/articles/v04i02/v04i02-06.pdf

Aldahdouh, A. A., Osório, A. J., & Caires, S. (2015). Understanding knowledge network, learning and connectivism. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 12(10), 3–21. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.46186

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