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Introduction to MOOC
● MOOC-massive open online courses.● an online education system.● aims at a large-scale interactive participation
of users with the help of web.● various features like videos, study materials,
quizzes and online exams and trying to make it more efficient than traditional education system.
Advantages of MOOC
● Learner can use any online tool that are relevant.
● People have no access to former higher education can participate.
● Informal and can be organized easily.● Learning will be possible by the collaboration
of learners and instructors
Advantages of MOOC(contd.)
● Supports career opportunities.● Informal and can be organized easily.● 9. peer grading supported.● Enrollment is open to anybody in the World,
no fee, no credentials needed.● etc
Challenges of MOOC
● Accreditation● Self regulation and motivation● High dropout rate● Standards and grading● Automated grading● Peer grading? Teaching assistant grading?● etc.
Related Work and Literature Survey
● Some General Features of LMS.● Feature-based survey of various learning
management systems.
- Open source LMSs and their features.
- Proprietary LMSs and their features.
Adaptation of Leraning Styles into a LMS
● David Kolbs model:
-Converger
-Diverger
-Assimilator
-Accommodator
Adaptation of Leraning Styles into a LMS(contd.)
● The Felder-Silverman Learning model
- Sensing Learners/Intuitive learners
- Visual Learners/Verbal learners
- Active Learners/Reflective learners
- Sequential Learners/Global learners
Adaptation of Leraning Styles into a LMS(Conclusion)
● Our proposed Learning Style Model
- Visual learners
- Reading-writing preference learners
- Experimental learners
● Course creation is as follows in the next slide.
Introduction to edX-MOOC
● edX is a non-profit organization which is founded by the collaboration of Harward and MIT
● Standard features of edX are as given in the
nest silde.
Blended Learning - MOOC Modelof IIT Bombay
● Face-to-face learning + Online learning.
● New kind of methodology in educational
system.
Blended Learning - MOOC Modelof IIT Bombay(contd.)
● Advantages of our model
- Elimination of duplicate work.
- A better training
- A better teaching
- A better learning
- Successful completion rate increses
- Minimum pass grade is gaurentied
Blended Learning - MOOC Modelof IIT Bombay(contd.)
● Challenges of our model
- Does edX-MOOC supports our model.
- Architectural, Technical and Administrational
issues
- What database tables are need to be
modified/created
- Implementation, testing and deployment
Problem Statement
● Implementation of Blended Learning-MOOC model
● Integration of main modules and extra modules
● Adaption of learning styles into edX-MOOC● Implementation of few features which are
given in the next slide.
Django Framework
● Django is a high level python based web framework
● One can build a complex web applications● Follows Model-View-Template
References
● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOCs● https://www.edx.org/● https://github.com/search?q=edx&ref=cmdform● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_learning● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles●