TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating MOOC with Open Source Moodle
T2 - 13th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2018
AU - Al-Khanjari, Zuhoor
AU - Al-Kindi, Iman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) is considered as a strong competitor for the next availability of educational tools and entered the field of higher education around the world. 2012 was a year of speedy era for education with the beginning of MOOCs to be used and learned for free in the world. It is commonly accepted and preferred because it has several advantages like large scale, no restrictions for the time and place, open free in which it can deliver a new knowledge acquisition approach for learners. In line with this, through investigating the utilization of MOOCs in some continents such as Asia, Europe and USA, it appeared that MOOC had been integrated local curricula through Learning Management System (LMS). The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of adapting MOOC to support the currently learning and teaching process in Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) that combines both online and face-to-face in order to promote and improve the way SQU delivers courses' content and host online learning activities by using Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle). Also, to highlight possible opportunities when integrating MOOCs in SQU E-learning environment that will allow it to explore new learning models and innovative practices in teaching and learning.
AB - Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) is considered as a strong competitor for the next availability of educational tools and entered the field of higher education around the world. 2012 was a year of speedy era for education with the beginning of MOOCs to be used and learned for free in the world. It is commonly accepted and preferred because it has several advantages like large scale, no restrictions for the time and place, open free in which it can deliver a new knowledge acquisition approach for learners. In line with this, through investigating the utilization of MOOCs in some continents such as Asia, Europe and USA, it appeared that MOOC had been integrated local curricula through Learning Management System (LMS). The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of adapting MOOC to support the currently learning and teaching process in Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) that combines both online and face-to-face in order to promote and improve the way SQU delivers courses' content and host online learning activities by using Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle). Also, to highlight possible opportunities when integrating MOOCs in SQU E-learning environment that will allow it to explore new learning models and innovative practices in teaching and learning.
KW - Blended Learning
KW - bMOOC
KW - cMOOC
KW - lMS
KW - mOOC
KW - moodle
KW - xMOOC
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U2 - 10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2018.8605957
DO - 10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2018.8605957
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062411362
T3 - Proceedings of the 2018 13th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2018
SP - 47
EP - 51
BT - Proceedings of the 2018 13th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 18 November 2018 through 19 November 2018
ER -