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Can MOOC be designed as asynchronous courses
By Hongxin Yan July 7, 2015 - 3:17pm Comments (2)
All the MOOC courses I registered are synchronous courses. They require me to finish in a certain time frame. I often found sometimes I am busy or lazy and therefore missed schedules or deadlines for some activities. If missing too many, I just give up the courses.
Why not asynchronous? as we do at AU for undergraduates. If so, I might could have more chances to finish my MOOCs.
Hongxin Yan
Learning Designer at Athabasca University (AU); Doctoral Student at University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
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Most of Udacity's options are self-paced as well as a growing number from Coursera and EdX, and lots from smaller providers
See, for instance:
https://www.mooc-list.com/length/self-paced?static=true or https://www.class-central.com/courses/selfpaced
Being self-paced doesn't improve their completion rates at all :-) I have written on various occasions about some of the reasons this is to be expected, eg. https://landing.athabascau.ca/blog/view/294755/unintelligent-design-and-the-modern-mooc and https://landing.athabascau.ca/blog/view/496760/cargo-cult-courses. In brief, don't blame yourself for laziness. It's not you - it's them!
thank you Jon for the URLs and your thoughts on MOOC design. Now I have an excuse for my laziness. :)
It is a sad thing to arbitrarily set 13 weeks for courses for convenience. For courses that require longer time, say 33 weeks, we have to work around out of the bureaucratic timeframe. For example, dividing Python Programming into I, II, III, so that each has roughly 13 weeks. For courses that reqire shorter time, say 4 weeks, the only thing we can do is to bring something extra or even irrelevent into the course to fill out the 13 weeks. :)