Abstract
The MOOC M4D (Mobiles for Development) was a six weeks course from 2nd October- 16th November,2013 on advances of mobile services in many sectors that are vital to human development, such as education, health and agriculture and access to credit and finance. As a librarian the author is interested to know about the teaching/learning process within a MOOC because of reasons that MOOC is an increasingly growing phenomenon and libraries have potential to support MOOCs. The author shares her personal experiences and observations as a MOOC student and presents a short overview of MOOC M4D course, specifically on core issues covered in the course lectures
Highlights
MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course designed for anyone to participate without background knowledge or skills, fee and admission process; the only requirement is a username and password to log into the site
Some of the universities are being approached as potential partners to extend the reach and offerings of existing MOOC providers.The MOOC M4D course was a iJIM ‒ Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2014
The course was a perfect balance between forum posts; listen to course lectures and chat room discussions with instructors and other registered participants
Summary
MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course designed for anyone to participate without background knowledge or skills, fee and admission process; the only requirement is a username and password to log into the site. In an online learning context, student activity becomes a key element; it is understood that course team monitored the number of learners visiting the material during the week and as and when it crossed a threshold the set of materials were uploaded to the site. This process continued for entire duration of this course, and students were graded on the basis of the marks scored in both the quizzes. The certificates were issued by the Center for Continuing Education, IIT Kanpur, co-signed by Commonwealth of Learning
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