Online teaching going massive: input and outcomes
| Autor: | Charlotte Leire, Håkan Rodhe, Peter Arnfalk, Jessika Luth Richter, Kes McCormick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Engineering
Knowledge management Higher education Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Strategy and Management Massive open online course E-learning (theory) 05 social sciences 050301 education 010501 environmental sciences Public relations 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Green economy Task (project management) Order (exchange) Scale (social sciences) Sustainability ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION business 0503 education 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production. 123:230-233 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| Popis: | The proliferation of massive open online courses is a recent phenomenon in higher education. At the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University in Sweden, emerging pedagogical approaches in e-learning have long been embraced, allowing for valuable experience with new educational technologies applied in education for sustainability. In 2014, the Institute was given a formal task to develop a massive open online course on “Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia”, thereby utilizing existing capacities and experiences while experiencing new challenges revealed by courses of larger scale. This article presents the background to the Institute's undertaking with massive open online courses and the range of expectations from the main stakeholders. The article discusses massive open online courses as a novel venue for e-learning in sustainability education as regards learning activities, design and content. It concludes that while the initial experience of such a course has been positive, in order to better cater to the learner groups, continued attention needs to be paid to course design, teacher capacity and in particular an examination of learner motivations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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