Higher Education Lecturers’ Lived Experience of Going Public in MOOCs
ARTICLE
Ulf Olsson
Open Praxis Volume 9, Number 3, ISSN 1369-9997 e-ISSN 1369-9997 Publisher: International Council for Open and Distance Education
Abstract
Academics in higher education are used to having their research publications reviewed and openly scrutinized. Teaching in higher education has traditionally been an individual academic\u2019s activity that has taken place in a closed classroom. However, the introduction of open education, particularly massive open online courses (MOOCs) has challenged this. In MOOCs, lectures are recorded and made public for thousands of course participants to view. This study investigates, via semi-structured interviews, how 20 lecturers of 10 MOOCs at six Swedish Universities have experienced this. All have joined the projects voluntarily, but a few have done so with some ambivalence. For them, standing in front of the camera, publishing material and, to some extent, losing control of the course content was scary at the beginning of the projects. Overall, the lecturers overcame this and thought that it was a good opportunity to reach many students, as well as a way to keep up with the changing requirements for teaching in higher education.
Citation
Olsson, U. (2017). Higher Education Lecturers’ Lived Experience of Going Public in MOOCs. Open Praxis, 9(3), 287-297. International Council for Open and Distance Education. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/180665/.
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