LMOOCs, Classifying Design: Survey Findings from LMOOC Providers

Elaine Beirne; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Gearóid Ó Cleircín

EUROCALL 2017 Conference (2017)

Many of the major Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms support learning approaches which can be roughly categorised as transmission-based and asynchronous (Morris & Lambe, 2014), with limited forms of interactive elements. Language...

Best of Ireland: A curious case of persistent learners: insight into serial MOOC participation

Conchúr Mac Lochlainn; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Elaine Beirne; Mark Brown

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 1197–1202

Why do learners join MOOCs? This is a straightforward question which underpins many MOOC studies. It also leads to two related but distinct questions: firstly, who are MOOC learners? Secondly, what are their goals and motivations in undertaking a...

Topics: Learner-centered, and self-directed learning, Flexible learning, Online language learning

Innovating Pedagogy 2020: Open University Innovation Report 8

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme; Elaine Beirne; Gráinne Conole; Eamon Costello; Tim Coughlan; Rebecca Ferguson; Elizabeth FitzGerald; Mark Gaved; Christothea Herodotou; Wayne Holmes; Conchúr Mac Lochlain; Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl; Bart Rienties; Julia Sargent; Eileen Scanlon; Mike Sharples; Denise Whitelock

(2020) pp. 1–49

This series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning, and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. This eighth report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have ...