MOOCs: Introducing flexibility in Academia

Ulrike Wild; Michèle Gimbrère

MOOCs: Introducing flexibility in Academia

Ulrike Wild, Michèle Gimbrère

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Abstract

The number of high level MOOCs produced by top universities can contribute to an increasing flexibility in academia but we seem somewhat hesitant in offering them to our students. When Wageningen university decided to integrate its own MOOCs in the electives for the campus students, we discovered that most obstacles were caused by academic beliefs and systems, anchored in our face to face education. Our policy to treat the MOOCs as a normal course with the parameters of the study guide and by organizing an on campus examination, most problems were solved. For the next step, the exchange of MOOCs between HEI's, we predict that our administrative and quality assurance systems will be the limiting factor to exploit the scalability of the MOOCs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Work in Progress Papers of the Experience and Research Tracks and Position Papers of the Policy Track at EMOOCs 2017 co-located with the EMOOCs 2017 Conference
Editors	C. Delgado Kloos, M. Pérez Sanagustín, P. Jermann, D. Seaton, D. Jansen, M. Calise
Publisher	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Pages	133-138
Volume	1841
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	EMOOCs-WIP 2017 - Madrid, Spain Duration: 22 May 2017 → 26 May 2017

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

Conference

Conference	EMOOCs-WIP 2017
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	22/05/17 → 26/05/17

Keywords

Campus education
Credits
Elective
MOOCs
Policy

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Wild, U., & Gimbrère, M. (2017). MOOCs: Introducing flexibility in Academia. In C. Delgado Kloos, M. Pérez Sanagustín, P. Jermann, D. Seaton, D. Jansen, & M. Calise (Eds.), Proceedings of Work in Progress Papers of the Experience and Research Tracks and Position Papers of the Policy Track at EMOOCs 2017 co-located with the EMOOCs 2017 Conference (Vol. 1841, pp. 133-138). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1841/P07_111.pdf

Wild, Ulrike ; Gimbrère, Michèle. / MOOCs : Introducing flexibility in Academia. Proceedings of Work in Progress Papers of the Experience and Research Tracks and Position Papers of the Policy Track at EMOOCs 2017 co-located with the EMOOCs 2017 Conference . editor / C. Delgado Kloos ; M. Pérez Sanagustín ; P. Jermann ; D. Seaton ; D. Jansen ; M. Calise. Vol. 1841 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2017. pp. 133-138 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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Wild, U & Gimbrère, M 2017, MOOCs: Introducing flexibility in Academia. in C Delgado Kloos, M Pérez Sanagustín, P Jermann, D Seaton, D Jansen & M Calise (eds), Proceedings of Work in Progress Papers of the Experience and Research Tracks and Position Papers of the Policy Track at EMOOCs 2017 co-located with the EMOOCs 2017 Conference . vol. 1841, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 133-138, EMOOCs-WIP 2017, Madrid, Spain, 22/05/17. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1841/P07_111.pdf>

MOOCs: Introducing flexibility in Academia. / Wild, Ulrike; Gimbrère, Michèle.
Proceedings of Work in Progress Papers of the Experience and Research Tracks and Position Papers of the Policy Track at EMOOCs 2017 co-located with the EMOOCs 2017 Conference . ed. / C. Delgado Kloos; M. Pérez Sanagustín; P. Jermann; D. Seaton; D. Jansen; M. Calise. Vol. 1841 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2017. p. 133-138 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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Wild U, Gimbrère M. MOOCs: Introducing flexibility in Academia. In Delgado Kloos C, Pérez Sanagustín M, Jermann P, Seaton D, Jansen D, Calise M, editors, Proceedings of Work in Progress Papers of the Experience and Research Tracks and Position Papers of the Policy Track at EMOOCs 2017 co-located with the EMOOCs 2017 Conference . Vol. 1841. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 2017. p. 133-138. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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