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Tzovla, Eirini; Kedraka, Katerina; Kaltsidis, Christos – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This paper reports on a study exploring the in-service elementary school teachers satisfaction as far as the design and implementation of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which took place during the second wave of pandemic COVID-19 and prepared in-service elementary school teachers how to teach biological concepts in Primary School with the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Satisfaction, Online Courses
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El Kabtane, Hamada; El Adnani, Mohamed; Sadgal, Mohamed; Mourdi, Youssef – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) presents an approach of learning to permit an online and a distant learning for internet users. These systems are confronted with several problems among which the most important: the lack of participants' interactivity in the platform and the dropout of the participants. Those challenges need to be resolved to…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Li, Xiaobin – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2019
China has the largest higher education system in the world. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the literature on distance higher education, including MOOCs, development in China, its accompanying practices, challenges, and opportunities. The study also offers recommendations derived from the literature on how to make distance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Large Group Instruction
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Sekhri, Anuraha – Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are getting popularity among the stake holders of education as they are assets for the learners as well as teachers. The emergence of education hubs and the fast expansion of MOOCs is a reflection of the changing landscape of cross-border higher education. The online mode of distant education has become very…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Distance Education
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Sandhu, Muhammad Rizwan Saleem; Qamar, Nida; Nazir, Shakira – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2019
Low degree completion rate within the prescribed time due to exceedingly large failure rate of students has become a growing concern for Distance Learning Institutes. High failure rate in courses as much as 70% in freshman courses and 60% in advanced courses as the students proceed to final semesters--are costly to both; the institution and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Failure, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Pozón-López, I.; Kalinic, Zoran; Higueras-Castillo, Elena; Liébana-Cabanillas, Francisco – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
The purpose of this study is to classify the predictors of satisfaction and intention to use in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Informed by a scientific literature review, this work poses a behavioral model to explain intention to use via various constructs. To this end, the authors have carried out a study through an online survey of Spanish…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Predictor Variables, Student Satisfaction
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Mays, Tony John; Ogange, Betty; Ogange, Betty; Perris, Kirk – Journal of Learning for Development, 2021
Following campus closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Ministries of Education around the world requested teachers to move their teaching online. This case study reflects on how the Commonwealth of Learning responded to requests from two countries to provide support in pedagogical and curricular change for online learning in this process. A…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
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Cánovas, Isabel Álvarez; Ortiz, Carles Dulsat – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This paper describes the on-line courses for sport technicians. It approaches them to show the virtues of this formative modality. In the Educational Spanish System, the sportive technician training is part of special teaching, and many of specialties are in transitional period. The final of this period concludes in the official recognition of the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Distance Education
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Tang, Hengtao; Wang, Nicole – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2017
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are high enrollment college-level courses that have the potential to serve learners worldwide. However, numerous questions about MOOCs are still unanswered. For example, are people enrolled in MOOCs from countries where higher educational systems are very constrained? How much does the basic infrastructure, such…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Mabuan, Romualdo Atibagos – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are dramatically restructuring, reshaping, and redefining the vast landscape of teaching and learning across the globe. With MOOCs' ubiquity, openness, and accessibility, they have become a new platform for teacher professional development. Utilizing a co-constructed narrative inquiry, this paper aimed to…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Aydin, Cengiz Hakan – Open Praxis, 2017
This manuscript intends to elaborate the current status of MOOC movement in the world and to reveal the results of a survey study in which the Turkish higher education institutions' reactions to this movement was investigated. The survey was actually a part of a larger survey study that, as a deliverable of the EU funded HOME project, was…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Reinhardt, Franziska; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Deribo, Tobias; Happ, Roland; Nell-Müller, Sarah – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2018
Gaining access to higher education (HE) is a serious concern for refugees. Although studies on the integration and success of refugees in HE are scarce, the challenges associated with this issue as well as its international relevance are becoming apparent. The "Success and Opportunities for Refugees in Higher Education" (SUCCESS) project…
Descriptors: Refugees, Access to Education, Higher Education, Online Courses
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Bárkányi, Zsuzsanna; Melchor-Couto, Sabela – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This paper examines learner attitudes, self-efficacy beliefs, and anxiety in a beginners' Spanish Language Massive Open Online Course (LMOOC) by answering three research questions: (1) how do learners feel about acquiring speaking skills on an LMOOC?; (2) do they experience anxiety with regards to speaking?; and (3) do their self-efficacy beliefs…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Anxiety, Online Courses
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Lin, Hong – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2014
Massively open? College unbound? What are the roots of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and how much of a trend is it? What promises and anxieties do MOOCs bring to higher education, academic leaders, and faculty? 2013 has witnessed one of the most rapid and enthusiastic adoptions of educational innovation in history, generating numerous…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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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
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