Overview
- Provide detailed data about the development of MOOCs in China and some other countries
- Provide detailed data about MOOC learners in China
- Provide suggestions about how to improve teaching and learning in MOOCs
- Provide suggestions about how to develop the system of online education at the national and the institutional level
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology (LNET)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
In this book, we analyse and present the current construction and development of MOOCs in China from four dimensions including platforms, courses, learners, colleges and universities based on huge empirical evidence from a comprehensive investigation of 14 platforms, 42 universities, 1388 MOOCs, and 22895 learners. Our investigation mainly focused on seven topics: platform construction and operation, learner groups, curriculum organization form, teaching interaction, learning evaluation model, learning support service, and courses certification and academic score system.
Based on the investigation, we found there is an emerging trend of collaboration among government, universities and enterprise in the development of MOOCs in China, which provides great opportunities to build an innovative educational service system for all kinds of learners. We also discuss our findings in relation to the corresponding development of MOOCs in United States, Europe and other regions and then focus on the unique challenges that China faces, such as the lack of deep learning in MOOCs, the low information literacy and self-regulated learning abilities of MOOC learners, the lack of individualized support for MOOC learners, and so on. At last, this book summarizes the overall development of MOOCs in China and other countries and then put forward the future trends and suggestions in this field.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Chen Li, Vice president of Beijing Normal University (BNU). Since 2005, she has worked as a professor in Research Center of Distance Education. Meanwhile, she also worked as a visiting scholar at Open University in UK and Open University in HK. Professor Chen’s research mainly focuses on Distance Education & Lifelong Learning. she has been undertaking more than 10 large-scale projects. She is currently leading the projects “Quality Assurance Standard on Distance Education for China” and “Survey on Lifelong Learning Literacy for Adult in Beijing”. She has published 10 books and more than 100 academic papers.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Burgos works as Vice-rector for Knowledge Transfer & Technology, UNESCO Chair on eLearning and ICDE Chair in OER at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. He is also Director of the Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education. He contributes to research and implementation projects about social entrepreneurship (Social Seducement), regional Open Education (OpenMed), clustered Open Education (Open Educators Factory), funded by the European Commission and Worldwide. His interests mainly focus on Educational Technology and Innovation: Adaptive/Personalised and Informal eLearning, Open Education, Learning Analytics, Social Networks, eGames, and eLearning Specifications. He has published over 100 scientific papers and 15 books on these topics. He has been the jury chair of the 2016 UNESCO Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education. He holds degrees in Communication (PhD), Computer Science (Dr. Ing), Education (PhD), Anthropology (PhD) and Business Administration (DBA).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Development of MOOCs in China
Authors: Qinhua Zheng, Li Chen, Daniel Burgos
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6586-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6585-9Published: 05 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4909-6Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6586-6Published: 05 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2196-4963
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4971
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 288
Number of Illustrations: 185 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Technology, Learning & Instruction, Computers and Education