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Direct linkRiehemann, Jens; Hellmann, Jens H.; Jucks, Regina – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Massive open online courses are increasingly popular. One characteristic of most massive open online courses is that they are offering educational contents to masses of different individual learners. At the same time, a particular challenge for the individual learner could be the massiveness of such courses, that is, that one is part of a large…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Download full textGay, Glenda H. E.; Betts, Kristen – Online Learning, 2020
Student engagement and group work are critical to developing competencies, deeper learning, and attributes that align with 21st-century skills. In an increasingly competitive and dynamic workforce, the ability for employees to engage in collaborative workgroups is essential. A new capstone group-work assignment using Online Human Touch (OHT)…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Class Size
Robinson, Anthony C.; Kerski, Joseph; Long, Erin C.; Luo, Heng; DiBiase, David; Lee, Angela – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
The massive open online course (MOOC) is a new approach for teaching online. MOOCs stand apart from traditional online classes in that they support thousands of learners through content and assessment mechanisms that can scale. A reason for their size is that MOOCs are free for anyone to take. Here we describe the design, development, and teaching…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
Liu, Min; Kang, Jina; Cao, Mengwen; Lim, Mihyun; Ko, Yujung; Myers, Ryan; Schmitz Weiss, Amy – American Journal of Distance Education, 2014
This study examined participants' learning experiences in the context of a six-week massive open online course (MOOC) in journalism with five thousand students from 137 countries. Three research questions were asked: (1) Who are the students and why are they enrolled in this MOOC?, (2) How much time have the students spent in taking this MOOC…
Descriptors: College Students, Assignments, Student Attitudes, Online Courses
Knox, Jeremy – Distance Education, 2014
While education has been both open and online, the sizeable enrolment numbers associated with massive open online courses (MOOCs) are somewhat unprecedented. In order to gauge the significance of education at scale, this article analyses specific examples of massive participation derived from E-learning and Digital Cultures, a MOOC from the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Large Group Instruction, Distance Education
Barnett, John; McPherson, Vance; Sandieson, Rachel M. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
An instructor tried using connectivism to teach an online graduate Education course called Teaching in a Virtual World. As a way to embody the many connections inherent in the group, all members of the class created and taught modules of their own choosing to each other. The instructor and two former students reflected together online in depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Graduate Study
Okada, Alexandra; Scott, Peter; Mendonça, Murilo – Open Praxis, 2015
The challenging of assessing formal and informal online learning at scale includes various issues. Many universities who are now promoting "Massive Online Open Courses" (MOOC), for instance, focus on relatively informal assessment of participant competence, which is not highly "quality assured". This paper reports best…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Internet, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction
O'Reilly, Norman J.; Rahinel, Ryan; Foster, Mary K.; Patterson, Mark – Journal of Marketing Education, 2007
Large universities are increasingly offering marketing courses in classes of 300 or more students. Without access to the usual verbal and nonverbal cues, instructors in these megaclasses are disadvantaged in terms of their ability to respond to learners' needs. As a result, marketing instructors have supplemented course infrastructure with…
Descriptors: Marketing, Business Education, Large Group Instruction, Class Size
