It finally happened! This staff member of the eLearning Centre of Kemi-Tornio UAS completed a MOOC. Well, to be exact, I completed two simultaneously! 🙂 A MOOC is a Massive, Open, On-line Course. The model was developed in the past few years and it had its breakthrough in 2012. The idea behind it is to offer high-level education, for free, to very large student populations worldwide via the Internet. The biggest MOOCs have more than 100 000 enrolled students. This implies that contact between teachers and students must necessarily be very limited and this, in turn, increases demands on the course material to be interactive. There are two main approaches to this. One is crowd-sourcing, in other words the students teach each other with a minimum of online sources provided. These courses rely heavily on on-line discussion and peer-evaluation. The other approach is to create recorded lectures with accompanying interactive study materials.
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