TY - JOUR
T1 - In Search of Quality
T2 - Using Quality Matters to Analyze the Quality of Massive, Open, Online Courses (MOOCs)
AU - Lowenthal, Patrick R.
AU - Hodges, Charles B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Lowenthal and Hodges.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The concept of the massive, open, online course (MOOC) is not new, but high-profile initiatives have moved MOOCs into the forefront of higher education news over the past few years. Members of institutions of higher education have mixed feelings about MOOCs, ranging from those who want to offer college credit for the successful completion of MOOCs to those who fear MOOCs are the end of the university as we know it. We set forth to investigate the quality of MOOCs by using the Quality Matters quality control framework. In this article, we present the results of our inquiry, with a specific focus on the implications the results have on day-to-day practice of designing online courses.
AB - The concept of the massive, open, online course (MOOC) is not new, but high-profile initiatives have moved MOOCs into the forefront of higher education news over the past few years. Members of institutions of higher education have mixed feelings about MOOCs, ranging from those who want to offer college credit for the successful completion of MOOCs to those who fear MOOCs are the end of the university as we know it. We set forth to investigate the quality of MOOCs by using the Quality Matters quality control framework. In this article, we present the results of our inquiry, with a specific focus on the implications the results have on day-to-day practice of designing online courses.
KW - Course Quality
KW - Instructional Design
KW - MOOCs
KW - Massive Open Online Courses
KW - Online Learning
KW - Quality Assurance
KW - Quality Matters
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84945930434&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.19173/irrodl.v16i5.2348
DO - 10.19173/irrodl.v16i5.2348
M3 - Article
SN - 1492-3831
VL - 16
SP - 83
EP - 101
JO - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
JF - International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
IS - 5
ER -