MOOC’s (Massive Open Online Courses) are open source learning platforms offering various free of cost courses like on SWAYAM Portal in India.For faculty learners,it is free, and for non faculty learners, a nominal fees is charged. It is very good opportunity to learn from the learned faculty.How to make these programmes more effective.
I personally feel MOOCs have high potential in knowledge skill and competency development. There are different ways of using these. Most of the Indian are now in the transition phase of learning in digital age. Hence, it will take some time to make it popular. However, we are also working on the same by conducting seminars online offline. Through digital promotion using different forums, social media. You can try it.
Sanjeev Bansal - This is a great question. I noticed many academics do not see a difference between running courses on a face-to-face basis and changing them to online courses. It is essential to note the following:
1. Not all courses can be turned online. The team should weigh the advantages and limitations of the change, the readiness of students for online learning, and whether they will turn the whole course or start with some parts of the course, and then learn from such piloting.
2. The most important in online courses is how to present the course engagingly? You might use flipped lecture and mini-videos, or teleconferences, and other methods to engage students.
3. The coordinator should prepare tasks and materials needed to the course, as well as learning resources and assessment schedule.
4. The website and the learning management system to be used to deliver the curriculum should be well-designed to enable communication, small-groups work online, discussions, feedback, and use of online resources.
I hope these key points help.
This is a great question. I personally feel MOOCs have high potential in knowledge skill and competency development. There are different ways of using these. Most of the Indian are now in the transition phase of learning in digital age. Hence, it will take some time to make it popular.
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