A New Model for Offering Construction Education on MOOC Platforms

摘要

A new instructional medium called MOOC has recently become prevalent. Millions of learners from all over the world enroll in these available and affordable courses. Thousands of courses have been offered by distinguished institutes and instructors on a variety of evolving MOOC platforms. However, construction education has yet to take advantage of this popular medium. This paper offers a guideline for construction education to provide successful MOOC courses. Construction educators are already familiar with new educational technologies and active learning pedagogies. Combining these two familiar approaches can be a starting point for offering successful courses in MOOCs. This paper suggests using team-based and problem-based learning approaches along with the MOOC delivery in order to increase the success and completion rate, which has been problematic in MOOC courses.