Revolutionizing online education with ocMOOCs What is the concept of ocMOOCs? Currently, MOOC courses that are being offered by Coursera, edX and universities are targeted to reach learners from all parts of the world. Our goal in launching ocMOOCs is to study how people who share the same cultural background interact, access and share information among each other. In other words, we are interested in studying the learning behavior of how people of one culture exchange and share information among their own community but geographically dispersed. The classes provided by conventional MOOCs are all in English and from the West, which means that all those people from 190 countries are learning content from the West. Roughly 60 percent of the worlds population is from the East, and Caucasians account for only 25 percent. I have to ask: Isnt it neo-colonialism? Based on my understanding, this type of research has not been done in the past and using MOOC technology makes such study possible today. Furthermore, this type of study cannot be done in a commonly spoken language such as English in order to observe the pattern of information exchange among the people with the same cultural background. Therefore, we named our pilot MOOC One Culture MOOC. We call ocMOOC the pilot project because we would like to expand this concept of studying to other cultures in the future. (SIgue) hancinema.net/revolutionizing-online-education-69770.html
Posted on: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 12:19:28 +0000
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