ABOUT MOOC

WHAT ARE MOOC’S?

Mooc is short for “Massive Open Online Courses”.

These are classes taught online to a large number of students by teachers

Students watch short video lectures and complete assignments

• That way professors can support a class with hundreds of thousands of participants.

BACKGROUND ABOUT MOOC

First mooc launched in 2008 It was names “Connectism

and Connective Knowledge / 2008” (cck8)

Created by educators Stephen Downes and George Siemens

Uses different plat forms to engage learning like, Facebook groups, Wiki pages, blogs and other form of social networks

Around that year 2,200 people signed up for cck8

Positives

And Negatives

ProsOffer equal rights to

educationEnrollment to coarse of

choice, convenient to home without spending a dime

Uses all sort social network. Accessible

Cons

Because of the large number of student, feedback on assessment is a struggle

Only disciplined and self regulated learners can manage to complete the coarse

Conti..

Teacher can never interact directly with a student.

Only 7.7% learners finish the coarse.

Interesting about Mooc!Mooc’s are a good alternatives to books.

They can be on your own language

Accessible to anyone, everywhere

What I like about Mooc

I enroll to the coarse of my choice without asp score deciding for me

They offer short coarses And it is morden technology,

relevant to nowaday

That was all!