Initial recommendations of MOOCs characteristics for academic discipline clusters
Massive Open Online Courses (known as MOOCs) have been introduced as an extensive and pervasive learning style in order to increase students’ performance. Many academics and students in Malaysian higher education institutions have begun to show their interest in applying MOOCs to deliver course mate...
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| author | Salamon, H. M. Ali, N. M. Miskon, S. Ahmad, N. |
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| description | Massive Open Online Courses (known as MOOCs) have been introduced as an extensive and pervasive learning style in order to increase students’ performance. Many academics and students in Malaysian higher education institutions have begun to show their interest in applying MOOCs to deliver course material or conduct distance education in an innovative way. However, there are no guidelines available to assist the application of MOOCs; in particular, there are no guidelines to help academics develop their own MOOCs based on their area of expertise. In the education domain, usually these areas of expertise are arranged according to certain groups referred to as academic discipline clusters. This study investigates existing MOOCs characteristics and recommends specific characteristics in relation to academic discipline clusters. Content analysis was carried out by exploring MOOCs characteristics implemented successfully in six universities worldwide. This included an examination of the platforms used and the courses that applied MOOCs. Based on the results, the desirable characteristics of MOOCs are recommended with regard to academic discipline clusters, with the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia used as a case study. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-725632017-11-27T02:58:51Z http://eprints.utm.my/72563/ Initial recommendations of MOOCs characteristics for academic discipline clusters Salamon, H. M. Ali, N. M. Miskon, S. Ahmad, N. QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Massive Open Online Courses (known as MOOCs) have been introduced as an extensive and pervasive learning style in order to increase students’ performance. Many academics and students in Malaysian higher education institutions have begun to show their interest in applying MOOCs to deliver course material or conduct distance education in an innovative way. However, there are no guidelines available to assist the application of MOOCs; in particular, there are no guidelines to help academics develop their own MOOCs based on their area of expertise. In the education domain, usually these areas of expertise are arranged according to certain groups referred to as academic discipline clusters. This study investigates existing MOOCs characteristics and recommends specific characteristics in relation to academic discipline clusters. Content analysis was carried out by exploring MOOCs characteristics implemented successfully in six universities worldwide. This included an examination of the platforms used and the courses that applied MOOCs. Based on the results, the desirable characteristics of MOOCs are recommended with regard to academic discipline clusters, with the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia used as a case study. Asian Research Publishing Network 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/72563/1/HuzaifahMohdSalamon2016_InitialRecommendationsofMOOCS.pdf Salamon, H. M. and Ali, N. M. and Miskon, S. and Ahmad, N. (2016) Initial recommendations of MOOCs characteristics for academic discipline clusters. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 87 (2). pp. 204-213. ISSN 1992-8645 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84969504930&partnerID=40&md5=9ee838970404ef7e1eb18a775751aae0 |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Salamon, H. M. Ali, N. M. Miskon, S. Ahmad, N. Initial recommendations of MOOCs characteristics for academic discipline clusters |
| title | Initial recommendations of MOOCs characteristics for academic discipline clusters |
| title_full | Initial recommendations of MOOCs characteristics for academic discipline clusters |
| title_fullStr | Initial recommendations of MOOCs characteristics for academic discipline clusters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Initial recommendations of MOOCs characteristics for academic discipline clusters |
| title_short | Initial recommendations of MOOCs characteristics for academic discipline clusters |
| title_sort | initial recommendations of moocs characteristics for academic discipline clusters |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| url | http://eprints.utm.my/72563/1/HuzaifahMohdSalamon2016_InitialRecommendationsofMOOCS.pdf |
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