Facilitated MOOCs and local support
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This document discusses ways to make Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) more accessible and beneficial through local support structures. It proposes facilitating MOOCs with local study groups, translation services, and wraparound support services to help learners from diverse backgrounds. This includes using MOOCs to support refugees by providing local meetup groups and translating content into multiple languages. The goal is to open up MOOCs and enable regional adaptations so that more people can take advantage of open education opportunities.
Facilitated MOOCs and local support
- 1. Facilitated MOOCs and local support Alastair Creelman Linnaeus University, Sweden alastair.creelman@lnu.se @alacre
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- 6. Linguistic diversity CC BY-SA Some rights reserved by quinn.anya
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- 11. Opening up MOOCs • Open course platforms to enable regional adaptations • Tools to allow smaller languages to exploit MOOC movement • MOOC for development (Commonwealth of learning) MOOC4D • MOOC clubs MOOC meetups Learning Hubs CC BY-NC-ND Some rights reserved by ReSurge International
- 12. Wrapped MOOCs • Combining on-site teaching and examination with MOOC • Support in own language • Applied to local circumstances • Cascade model (Laurillard & Kennedy) CC BY-NC-ND Some rights reserved by heatherjoan
- 13. MOOCs for refugees • Local support groups, offline meetups • Kiron • MOOCs4inclusion • MOONLITE CC BY-SA Some rights reserved by GastelEtzwane on Wikimedia Commons
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