What is it about?
The Quality Matters online course rubric was applied to a selection of courses offered in the MOOC format to consider how MOOC design holds up with the QM quality indicators.
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Why is it important?
MOOCs were a short-lived "innovation" in online teaching and learning, but they still exist and are evolving. Even beyond the MOOC focus, this paper includes a specific focus on the implications the results have on day-to-day practice of designing online courses.
Perspectives
MOOCs may no longer be a "hot topic", but the findings in this paper continue to apply the MOOCs and other online course offerings.
Professor of Instructional Technology Charles B. Hodges
Georgia Southern University
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This page is a summary of: In Search of Quality: Using Quality Matters to Analyze the Quality of Massive, Open, Online Courses (MOOCs), The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, September 2015, Athabasca University Press,
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v16i5.2348.
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