TY - GEN
T1 - The Learners’ Perceptions of Learning Design for Mobile MOOCs
AU - Mavroudi, Anna
AU - Kokkinaki, Angelika
N1 - Funding Information:
The MOOC was hosted by the University of Nicosia and it was aiming to cultivate competences relevant to DevOps for Smart Cities among the participants. It consisted of 11 modules and it was created within the Smart DevOps project (https:// smartdevops.eu/dev/) which was funded with the support of the European Commission. The focus of the project was the professional development, through appropriate training, of the personnel who works or will work in municipalities that are gradually transformed into Smart Cities. Each module consisted of learning materials in the forms of videos and presentations for individual learning, a social learning component realized through online forums, and an assessment component realized through online quizzes. Two of the 11 modules were especially designed to promote reflections on behalf of the course participants.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the use of mobile learning are two learning/teaching forms that have received much attention in recent years. Despite the popularity of both approaches and the efforts to integrate or combination them, there is still a lack of papers that are focusing on the aspect of learning design for mobile MOOCs. To compensate for this lack, this paper is examining the preferences of MOOC learners between mobile and non-mobile MOOCs with respect to a number of crucial learning design parameters. An online anonymous survey was answered by 68 MOOCs participants, The results indicate that on the one hand, they think that MOOCs’ accessibility and flexibility are better supported using a mobile MOOC format. On the other hand, they think that the ability to concentrate, motivation, self-study/self-learning, and self-regulated learning are better supported in a non-mobile, conventional MOOC. The main conclusion drawn is that when it comes to learning design parameters that can promote deep learning, the participants perceive the non-mobile format as being superior. Yet, flexibility and accessibility are also important when it comes to creating inclusive learning environments. Thus, it seems that the creation of an inclusive mobile learning environment that would also support deep learning using MOOCs is a challenging problem for the learning designers.
AB - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the use of mobile learning are two learning/teaching forms that have received much attention in recent years. Despite the popularity of both approaches and the efforts to integrate or combination them, there is still a lack of papers that are focusing on the aspect of learning design for mobile MOOCs. To compensate for this lack, this paper is examining the preferences of MOOC learners between mobile and non-mobile MOOCs with respect to a number of crucial learning design parameters. An online anonymous survey was answered by 68 MOOCs participants, The results indicate that on the one hand, they think that MOOCs’ accessibility and flexibility are better supported using a mobile MOOC format. On the other hand, they think that the ability to concentrate, motivation, self-study/self-learning, and self-regulated learning are better supported in a non-mobile, conventional MOOC. The main conclusion drawn is that when it comes to learning design parameters that can promote deep learning, the participants perceive the non-mobile format as being superior. Yet, flexibility and accessibility are also important when it comes to creating inclusive learning environments. Thus, it seems that the creation of an inclusive mobile learning environment that would also support deep learning using MOOCs is a challenging problem for the learning designers.
KW - Learners’ perceptions
KW - Learning design
KW - Mobile learning
KW - MOOC
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128751066&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-96296-8_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-96296-8_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85128751066
SN - 9783030962951
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 259
EP - 268
BT - New Realities, Mobile Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 14th IMCL Conference
A2 - Auer, Michael E.
A2 - Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 14th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication, Technologies and Learning, IMCL 2021
Y2 - 4 November 2021 through 5 November 2021
ER -