Are MOOCs advancing as predicted by IEEE CS 2022 Report?

Sajid Iqbal Harbin Institute of Technology China

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MOOCs became famous, when in the fall of 2011, a professor of Stanford University conducted a course on Artificial Intelligence. Enrollment quickly reached 160,000 students from 190 countries; only 23,000 finished it. Since 2012, MOOCs got attention of the universities, media and entrepreneurs.

2012: Times year of the MOOC

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According to IEEE CS 2022 report, with nanotechnology and quantum computing, MOOCs are amongst top ten technologies that could change the world by 2022.

Oxford online dictionary added the acronym MOOC as, “ a course of study made available over the Internet without charge to a very large number of people”. MOOCs have generated a paradigm shift in online education by presenting free high-quality education to anyone, anywhere with Internet access.

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The advent of MOOCs may seem abrupt, but they are the next stage in the development of Open Educational Resources (OERs).

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Some MOOC platforms are:

Google Course Builder

OER University

Class2Go

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More than 35 million people have themselves enrolled in MOOCs, and 2015 enrollments figures are twice higher than that of 2014.

1800 new courses have been announced, taking the total number of courses to 4200 from over 550 universities in 2015.

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The disruptive promise of online courses can be observed in their deviation from the traditional model.

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MOOCs can be used as prerequisites and introductory engineering courses.

They can also complement continuing professional education (CPD) and certification preparation. 9

Some issues in engineering MOOCs are:

Laboratory Requirements Evaluation Completion

Rates

Accreditation Plagiarism Pedagogy

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