ANALYSIS OF NEED BASED DESIGN FRAMEWORK OF MOOCS

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National Seminar On "Adroitness in e-Content Development for Higher Education"

MOOCs means massively open online courses. MOOCs require specialized skills to conduct courses; these skills include teaching techniques, pedagogical techniques, network skills, and understanding of computers, multimedia, internet plus many more. Since design of MOOC courses requires many skills and courses shows various characteristics it is very important that design of MOOC is done very precisely. There are various types of MOOCs, but if we inspect them closely we can derive a few characteristics that are common to all MOOCs. Similarly we can derive certain pedagogical issues that are common to all MOOCs. This paper discusses various such issues effecting MOOCs. This paper also discusses various designing principles of MOOC courses and MOOC canvas framework for designing courses. It concludes giving gist of MOOC canvas and proposing other methods for designing courses. of technology.

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