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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Massive Open Online Course"”.
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Learning experiments in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
… experiments in the 8.MReV: Mechanics ReView massive open online course (MOOC) run on edX.org during summer 2014. We compare the efficacy of physics homework problems: (1) traditional physics problems involving many skills, (2) deliberate-practice activities that train individual skills using …
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The influence of video lectures on student engagement in the University of Cape Town's first Massive Open Online Course
… with different learning styles in UCT's first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Medicine and the Arts: Humanising Healthcare. A framework based on Grundewald's adaptation of Kolb's Learning Model was developed in order to segment students according to their learning styles and analyse the …
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utilising a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): a narrative inquiry on the experiences of caregivers in special care centres with online professional development
… study examines experiences of caregivers with online professional development in the provision of education in care environments in the South African context. Methods: This study utilised a narrative inquiry approach to explore and describe caregivers' experiences of engaging in the Severe to …
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Improving learning experience in MOOCs with educational content linking
Since the first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in 2011, there have been over 4,000 MOOCs on various subjects on the Web, serving over 35 million learners. MOOCs have shown the ability to transcend time and space, democratize knowledge dissemination, and bring the best education in the world to …
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Learnersourcing : improving learning with collective learner activity
Millions of learners today are watching videos on online platforms, such as Khan Academy, YouTube, Coursera, and edX, to take courses and master new skills. But existing video interfaces are not designed to support learning, with limited interactivity and lack of information about learners' …
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Understanding impact of life experiences on performance and learning behavior in an Introductory Computer Science MOOC
… in an introductory computer science MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Through data analysis work, this thesis identifies that some life experiences have an impact on a student’s performance and learning behaviors in the course. When it came to a student’s academic/career life experiences, …
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CLIMATE—CARBON—EQUITY Making Sustainable Design Concepts Accessible for All
… The web app has been successfully tested in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), launched in collaboration with MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), to teach sustainable building design as part of the Future of Energy Systems MicroMasters program. The goal is to make easily accessible and actionable …
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Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Student Participation in an Intro CS MOOC
… that remained unchanged throughout is the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platform edX: a platform that enables students around the world to engage in academia through an online, virtual environment. In efforts to analyze the impacts of the pandemic, this thesis will provide a data-driven …
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The nature of peer-feedback in a MOOC : a case study
… to describe the nature of peer-feedback in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offered by a German University. The MOOC was team-based, it offered the support of different actors, and allowed learners to participate in two different roles: students or supporters. Considering participants’ …
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Overcoming code rot in legacy software projects
… that affect software projects over the course of their lifetimes. While software engineering has matured over time to promote good practices (e.g, Test Driven Development) that prevent such issues, oftentimes developers will still have to inherit legacy code that is in the late stages of …
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MOOC video: a video segment search engine for MOOCs
For my thesis, under the guidance of Professor Chengxiang Zhai, I have worked on building a search system for MOOC, which will give video results to users for the queries that they make. Whenever the user makes a search from the client, video results will be fetched from the server and displayed to …
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O primeiro MOOC em língua portuguesa : análise crítica do seu modelo pedagógico
… do modelo pedagógico adotado no primeiro MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) em Língua Portuguesa – MOOC EaD, curso desenvolvido com base prática na experiência dos seus organizadores com aprendizagem formal e informal e respaldo teórico da perspectiva do Conectivismo, defendido por Siemens e …
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Dialogic Online Professional Development: The Use of Technology to Build a Community of Practice in Educational Dialogue
… (TPD). It asks whether and how a mechanical Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on educational dialogue can afford new, sustainable and scalable opportunities for practitioners and local facilitators to collaborate, reflect together, support one another and share their learning and practice. …
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MOOCs and access to higher education by South African underprivileged learners
… in providing quality higher education courses to the masses across the world with low barriers to entry and low cost. MOOCs could provide an alternative for underprivileged South Africans to access higher education. The purpose of the research: The main objective of this study is to …
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Gaze Analysis methods for Learning Analytics
… pair program comprehension and learning with a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The first context is a typical collaborative work scenario, while the second is a special case of dyadic interaction namely the teacher-student pair. We also demonstrate, using one example experiment, how the …
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Multimedia learning: principles of learning and instructional improvement in Massive, Open, Online Courses (MOOCS)
With good reason, many initial Massive, Open, Online Course (MOOC) studies conducted in the first three years of widespread MOOC hype and adoption have focused on retention rates and completion issues. No longer a new modality, many of the retention questions have now been answered as researchers …
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How do South African Educator's experiences of an online learning course prepare them to adopt inclusive education practices?
… explored how teachers perceive the potential for online learning opportunities by investigating their experiences of an online course, Education for All: Disability, Diversity, and Inclusion Massive Open Online Course (EFA: DDI MOOC) on teaching children with disabilities. A key underlying concern …
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Advancing Innovation in University Teaching: An Academic Development Model to Support Technology-Enhanced Assessment and Feedback Competencies and Practices
… Study 3: in the light of the key principles, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) was developed to sustain a self-paced learning environment to scaffold the assessment and feedback digital competencies of participants. The course in this first edition was delivered through a closed platform …