Massive Open Online Courses and Assessment of Learning Outcomes

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze MOOCs to see how assessment is currently being done and compare the findings with the learning assessment methods and models being used in other accepted and successful distance learning, for-credit courses.
The following specific questions guided the study:
1) How achievement of learning outcomes are assessed in MOOC courses and how they are documented within MOOCs to demonstrate learners’ successful achievement;
2) How achievement of learning outcomes is documented within MOOCs and whether or not there is a mechanism for providing feedback to improve learners’ performance?
3) How learners are progressing through achievement of learning outcomes in MOOC environments and how they receive feedback regarding their performance?

Authors

• Andrew P Stanley, University of North Carolina Wilmington

• Mahnaz Moallem, University of North Carolina - Wilmington