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Proposed Model for Using Open Educational Resources in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Authors:
Ahmed Hosny Saleh Metwally
Yining Wang

Keywords: Massive Open Online Courses; MOOCs; Open Educational Resources; OERs; Model

Abstract:
One of the most important events of the last few years was the propagation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Indeed, MOOCs have managed to help huge numbers of online users, especially in higher education sector, to attend free courses and get certificates. Open Educational Resources (OERs) can be used in different ways in the learning practices because the concept of openness and reusability of these resources encourages many stakeholders to use these resources in online and massive courses. The main challenge faced by many experiments in using OERs in MOOCs is how to enhance interaction between students and educational content. Thus, there is an urgent need to address this challenge by building and maintaining links between these kinds of courses and the provided OERs by other universities. The specific objective of this paper was to propose a model for using OERs through the current MOOCs. Data for this study were collected by reviewing previous related work and models to present this model in three main Phases: Pre-using OERs, Using OERs, and sustaining of OERs. Every Phase includes attributes and components. This proposed model can be implemented when designers and developers of MOOCs intend to invest different open educational resources in engaging participants and exchange best learning practices.

Pages: 109 to 114

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: March 19, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4367

ISBN: 978-1-61208-541-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from March 19, 2017 to March 23, 2017