The use of MOOCs to support personalized learning: An application in the technology entrepreneurship field
| Published | 2016 |
| Type of work | Special Issue on “Models, technologies and approaches toward widening the open access to learning and education” |
| Journal | Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 109-123 |
| Publisher | Hong Kong Bao Long Accounting & Secretarial Limited |
| Country | Hong Kong |
ABSTRACT
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are changing the way in which people can access digital knowledge, thus creating new opportunities for learning and competence development. MOOCs leverage the free and open use of digitized material through supportive on-line systems. MOOCs have gained worldwide popularity and many education providers have started to offer courses in different domains such as innovation management and entrepreneurship tackling recent demands for better employability and social inclusion. This paper presents a beneficial application of MOOCs to support the design and delivery of personalized learning paths aimed to develop competencies in the technology entrepreneurship domain. Using a design science approach, a platform for the delivery of open courses has been developed along with a set of experimental courses and learner/instructors guidelines. The platform is based on a roadmap purposefully designed to drive course classification, competence mapping and interactive learning gap/priority analysis. The paper reports a trial set of the system with undergraduate students conducted to draw feedback for iterative system design.| Keywords | competence development · curriculum development · entrepreneurship education · MOOC · open learning · personalization · technology entrepreneurship |
| ISSN | 2073-7904 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | by/3.0 |
| URL | http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/article/view/540 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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