Do your students take MOOCs as part of their learning?

Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy from UCL Knowledge Lab (UCL Institute of Education) are undertaking a research project on the transformative potential of MOOCs and contrasting online pedagogies with the Centre for Global Higher Education.

They are hoping to find out how people learn on a Massive Open Online Course. They are particularly interested in how learning on a MOOC is different from or similar to other forms of online learning, taking a more in-depth approach than most current MOOC research. In particular, Diana and Eileen are keen to talk to current undergraduates about the way learning on a MOOC is similar to or different from other kinds of online learning.

This will inform the way we create MOOCs in the future by helping us design in more features that are supportive of learning and change others that are less so.

If you recommend MOOCs to your students (undergraduates or postgraduates) it would be very helpful if you could put a notice in your Moodle site to invite your students to take part in the research.

If you are willing to help, please contact Eileen on eileen.kennedy@ucl.ac.uk who will send you some text to add, or simply direct the students to this page

In return, Diana and Eileen are happy to share their results with you which could help with your evaluation of your use of MOOCs in your teaching.