TY - GEN
T1 - Collaborative learning
T2 - 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessbility, ICTA 2017
AU - Al-Kindi, Iman
AU - Al-Khanjari, Zuhoor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/2
Y1 - 2017/7/2
N2 - The number of students using E-learning in the universities and colleges around the world has been increasing at massive level in the past years as a result of an easy access to higher educational resources via the internet. On the contrary, the number of instructors in most universities is increasing slowly. Because of the lack of employment opportunities in relation to the economic crisis experienced by some countries. As a consequence, instructional problems have appeared because of the lack of unsatisfactory support to students during E-learning procedure. Collaborative Learning (CL) has been recommended as a solution to this problem. This paper provides a new horizon of E-learning for collaborative learning using Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) concepts and cloud computing to solve this problem. Modes of learning have been proposed with case studies in Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed modes.
AB - The number of students using E-learning in the universities and colleges around the world has been increasing at massive level in the past years as a result of an easy access to higher educational resources via the internet. On the contrary, the number of instructors in most universities is increasing slowly. Because of the lack of employment opportunities in relation to the economic crisis experienced by some countries. As a consequence, instructional problems have appeared because of the lack of unsatisfactory support to students during E-learning procedure. Collaborative Learning (CL) has been recommended as a solution to this problem. This paper provides a new horizon of E-learning for collaborative learning using Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) concepts and cloud computing to solve this problem. Modes of learning have been proposed with case studies in Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed modes.
KW - Cloud Computing
KW - Collaborative Learning
KW - E-learning
KW - Interdisciplinary Learning
KW - MOOC
KW - Moodle
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U2 - 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336011
DO - 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336011
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050984682
T3 - 2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessbility, ICTA 2017
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessbility, ICTA 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 19 December 2017 through 21 December 2017
ER -