From a Written Culture to a Digital Culture, How MOOCs Can Change the Way We Teach Political Science?
(2015) APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Track: Integrating Technology in the Classroom — Location: Washington
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- The incorporation of new techniques into traditional teaching, and most notably the use of digital tools brings changes. MOOCs have been be considered by some editors as the most recent powerful opportunity to improve learning. The Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) was the first Belgian university to deliver MOOCs, and one of the leaders in Western Europe. In early 2013, four UCL faculty members decided to experiment MOOC as a new way of teaching and mediating knowledge in political science. The MOOC delivered on the edX plateform is entitled “Discovering political science” and known by the acronym Louv3x. As an introduction to political science, it mainly rests upon the course that the professors use to teach in auditorium since a few years now. The puzzling issue is to know how a translation operates from a traditional lecture to an online open and massive course. More specifically, this paper aims to observe what are the MOOCs impacts on faculty members’ course writing and development process. Furthermore and concretely, what are the challenges raised by MOOC development for faculty members?
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Hamonic, E., Schiffino-Leclercq, N., Reuchamps, M., Baudewyns, P., Legrand, V., & Cogels, M. (2015). From a Written Culture to a Digital Culture, How MOOCs Can Change the Way We Teach Political Science? APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Track: Integrating Technology in the Classroom, Washington. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/127095