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Direct linkLílian Tropiano; Pedro Reis – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2024
The research aims to establish a conceptual framework to design a MOOC to promote media literacy in the context of information disorder. Information disorder is a phenomenon that mainly occurs from the large flow of false or incorrect content posted on the internet. Promoting media literacy is a way of helping citizens to face the challenges of…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Program Design, Media Literacy, Social Media
Download full textParulla, Cibele Duarte; Weissheimer, Anne Marie; Santos, Marlise Bock; Cogo, Ana Luísa Petersen – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have emerged as an affordable way to distribute knowledge and democratize education. The examination of online courses calls for theoretical models and instruments that contemplate its particularities. The community of inquiry (CoI) framework has been used in several studies to analyze the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Communities of Practice, Surveys
Gabriela Trindade Perry; Marlise Bock Santos – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Instances of academic dishonesty are common in online learning environments because difficulties in their detection result in considerably low degrees of risks. However, if not identified, the noise introduced by dishonest learners in MOOCs' clickstream data could lead to biased results and conclusions in scientific research.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Distance Education, Electronic Learning
Paschoal, Leo Natan; Melo, Silvana Morita; Neves, Vânia de Oliveira; Conte, Tayana Uchôa; Souza, Simone do Rocio Senger de – Informatics in Education, 2023
Nowadays, few professionals understand the techniques and testing criteria to systematize the software testing activity in the software industry. Towards shedding some light on such problems and promoting software testing, professors in the area have established Massive Open Online Courses as educational initiatives. However, the main limitation…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Software, College Faculty, MOOCs
Kim, Woomee L.; Borup, Jered; Shin, Joan Kang; Evmenova, Anna S. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2023
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can provide important professional learning opportunities for teachers throughout the world. Despite high enrollment rates, learner engagement in MOOCs has been generally low, as reflected in their low completion rates. This is in part due to a combination of high flexibility and limited support and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Faculty Development, Blended Learning
Canavese, Daniel; Polidoro, Maurício; Ferreira, Ariadne Ribeiro; Velasquez, Claudia; Perry, Gabriela Trindade – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Introduction: Overcoming misinformation is essential considering stigma and discrimination in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This report presents the preliminary results of a health education strategy based on the massive open online course (MOOC) on Zero Discrimination in Brazil. Methods: Case study describing the development of the MOOC and its…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Foreign Countries, Health Education
Joao Alberto Arantes do Amaral – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2023
In this case study, we present our findings regarding a massive open online Scratch programming course. The course, which followed a project-based learning approach, was delivered from July 4 to 30, 2022 to 186 students in Brazil. The students were challenged to develop individual coding projects. Our research goal was to investigate teaching and…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Programming, Computer Science Education, Computers
do Amaral, João Alberto Arantes; Onusic, Luciana Massaro – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2022
In this article we present our findings regarding the challenges of offering a massive university's free-of-charge online course. The online course "Introduction to data science (with R)" was offered by one professor at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Osasco Campus, Brazil, from 11 to 28 of January of 2022, to 680 students from all…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Extension Education, Problem Based Learning, Universities
Prates, Jorge Marques; Melo, Silvana Morita; Valle, Pedro Henrique Dias; Garcia, Rogério Eduardo; Maldonado, José Carlos – Informatics in Education, 2023
Nowadays, SPOCs (Small Private Online Courses) have been used as complementary methods to support classroom teaching. SPOCs are courses that apply the usage of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), combining classroom with online education, making them an exciting alternative for contexts such as emergency remote teaching. Although SPOCs have been…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Science Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
