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Title:
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ANALYSIS ITEMS TO ASSESS THE QUALITY OF OPEN
ONLINE COURSES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION |
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Author(s):
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Marina Marchisio and Matteo Sacchet |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-17-7 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Pedro Isaias |
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Year:
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2020 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Instructional Quality, MOOC Quality, MOOC Quality Framework, MOOC Quality Checklist, Open Online Courses,
Start@unito |
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Type:
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Full |
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First Page:
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63 |
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Last Page:
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70 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The quality of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) is an important topic to be addressed by different stakeholders:
higher education institutions, MOOC providers, education companies, educational providers. National and international
agencies are or will be deeply involved in preparing or attending common guidelines in order to fulfill quality of
MOOCs. Some indicators that can help in analyzing quality are provided by the learner point of view, by pedagogy, by
instructional design, by outcome measures. The latter has been the most widely adopted, since numerical data help in
comparison between different platform or different educational experiences. But these data, such as completion and
retention rates, were criticized when used to assess quality of MOOCs. In the literature, there are some checklists and
framework that can help and guide the expert or novice designer in the process of MOOC developments. In the present
work, we are going to address the experience of the start@unito project, an online platform developed at the University of
Torino which offers 50 open online courses in order to facilitate the transition between secondary and tertiary education,
making the students anticipate their career by attending a complete university module online prior to enrolment at the
university. This could lead to an improvement in the number of ECTS credits acquired during the first year of university
studies and to the drop-out rate. An analysis of the start@unito open online courses quality is provided according to the
frameworks and checklists. |
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