MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation
There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent one such approach and one that, in the context of th...
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There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent one such approach and one that, in the context of this study, is considered to provide a means by which to transcend traditional training processes and disrupt conventional pedagogic practices. This paper offers a critical review of a large-scale MOOC deployed in English, and then in Hindi, to support targeted sustainable capacity building within an education development initiative (TESS-India) across seven states in India. The study draws on multiple sources of participant data to identify and examine features, which stimulated a buzz around the MOOCs, leading to over 40,000 registrations and a completion rate of approximately 50% for each of the two MOOCs.
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| spelling | doaj.art-ec706defbd6f41cc942335752ab27d772022-12-22T03:00:25ZengCommonwealth of LearningJournal of Learning for Development2311-15502017-06-0142MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in ParticipationFreda Wolfenden0Simon Cross1Fiona Henry2The Open University, UKThe Open University,UKThe Open University, UK There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent one such approach and one that, in the context of this study, is considered to provide a means by which to transcend traditional training processes and disrupt conventional pedagogic practices. This paper offers a critical review of a large-scale MOOC deployed in English, and then in Hindi, to support targeted sustainable capacity building within an education development initiative (TESS-India) across seven states in India. The study draws on multiple sources of participant data to identify and examine features, which stimulated a buzz around the MOOCs, leading to over 40,000 registrations and a completion rate of approximately 50% for each of the two MOOCs. https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/209MOOCsTeachersAdaptationIndiacapacity building |
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| title | MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation |
| title_full | MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation |
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| title_short | MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation |
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| topic | MOOCs Teachers Adaptation India capacity building |
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