Improving the Educational Effectiveness of MOOCs by Using Web-Based Information and Communication Technology

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Author(s): Bhavik Pathak (Indiana University South Bend, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 16
Source title: Revolutionizing Education through Web-Based Instruction
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mahesh Raisinghani (Texas Woman's University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9932-8.ch011

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Web-Based Teaching & Learning

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have proved their cost effectiveness in extending the reach of the traditional classroom education to thousands of learners across the globe. However, many questions have been raised regarding the educational effectiveness of these MOOC models. In particular, the lack of personalization, social interactions, and credibility have been cited as some of the most important factors that create uncertainties regarding the viability of the MOOC based educational models. In the last couple of decades, Web-based businesses including online retailers, electronic marketplaces and online portals have successfully integrated information and communication technology (ICT) led initiatives and evolved to become viable business models. The focus of this chapter is to analyze the challenges of the current MOOC based educational models and suggest how they can adopt ICT tools to transform into MOOC 2.0 - the next generation of MOOCs.

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