MOOC AS A LEARNING LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT

  MOOC AS A LEARNING LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT

MOOCs are massive open online courses. It begins as an opportunity for organizations to offer online courses to students all over the world for free. It provides flexible and affordable educational opportunities learners at all stages can leverage to thrive in an increasingly complex and technologically advanced world. 

For example, Coursera is basically an international learning environment so large that one generally does not fathom the benefits of such a large scale before getting inside this sort of an environment. 

• Firstly, you will have someone better than you. You will also have someone way slower than you. This contrast can bring out excellent questions about your course content.

• Secondly, meet and greet different learners.

• Thirdly, when you engage yourself in a forum culture, you have the opportunity to give and receive good and bad feedback on everything that is up for discussion. 

• Fourthly, the distance. MOOCs are served on a digital platform with (mostly) ‘at your own pace’ courses which allow you to maintain some psychological and physical distance from your peers and teachers. 

• Fifthly,  helping other students in whichever way you can improves your own learning. Learn by teaching. 

REFERENCES

Mooc.org. (2019). Learn About MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses | An edX Site. https://www.mooc.org/about-moocs 

Shukla, A. (2020, September 13). MOOCs and the unexpected advantages of online learning. Cognition Today. https://cognitiontoday.com/moocs-and-advantages-of-online-learning/