What is Best for the Learner?: Are MOOCs the Answer?

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Author(s): Carole A. Bagley (The Technology Group, Inc, USA & University of St. Thomas, USA)and Janet Weisenford (ICF International, USA)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 16
Source title: Macro-Level Learning through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Strategies and Predictions for the Future
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Elspeth McKay (RMIT University, Australia)and John Lenarcic (RMIT University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8324-2.ch008

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Web-Based Teaching & Learning

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Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs are increasing in use by universities, corporations and other organizations. The quality of instruction and learning is an ongoing topic of debate as to whether MOOCs are effective for learning. What is best for the learner is determined by multiple factors. This chapter looks at what is best for the learner and whether MOOCs are the answer. The authors examine each of the factors that impact what is best for the learner. Each of the factors (accessibility, cost to the learner, quality of instructional design, learner performance, and acquiring on-line collaboration methods and resources) are described and are followed by a discussion of the issues, controversies and problems associated with each factor. This chapter takes up the discussion on the book section ‘RIA and education practice of MOOCs,' with the particular focus on the topic of ‘educational training design.'

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