Community Potential in Massive Open Online Courses

DOI

10.2991/emle-17.2017.157How to use a DOI?

Keywords

MOOCs; social interaction; virtual community

Abstract

Since its emergence, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have promptly grasped the whole world's attention. It's an unprecedented phenomenon of one world-wide classroom. There also occurred a fierce world-wide debate around this new education mode questioning whether MOOCs could provide high-quality learning experience. This article surveys literatures about the birth and impact of MOOCs, arguments around this new education mode, and discusses the potential of utilizing MOOCs' discussion forums to better build learning communities, to improve social interaction and knowledge creation among MOOCs learners.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ge Mu
AU  - Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - Community Potential in Massive Open Online Courses
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Economics, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 736
EP  - 738
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/emle-17.2017.157
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