Perspectives on Curriculum Inclusive MOOCs for Engineering Education: Reflection & Learning

Abstract

The world is moving towards new and innovative approaches for providing education to the students and enhance their learning. MOOC which stands for Massive Open Online Courses is one such approach which has been quite popular in the recent times and is believed to have high potential to improve the learning of the students drastically. Universities are moving towards adopting these MOOCs by implementing various models to merge these MOOCs in their curriculum. The paper highlights the implementation of new form of blended MOOCs that has been termed as Curriculum Inclusive MOOCs which was offered by a Private University in India to its students through their academic planning worksheet as proposed by the authors in the framework of ciMOOCs. Major focus of the study was the integration of MOOCs in curriculum of Universities. Comparative of the student’s performance in ciMOOCs and conventional MOOCs was the objective of this study. To complete the study, ciMOOC was implemented in a private University in India by selecting a particular course in Computer Science discipline from National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). As a result we were able to compare the performance of students in the ciMOOC with the performance of learners of that particular MOOC on the platform.