Digital Literacies Final Project.pdf Apr. 2014 | Page 2

Introduction!
Why MOOC?

Why Coursera?

!

Inspired
  by
  the
  concept
  of
  “2lipped
  classroom”

and
  the
  example
  of
  “Khan
  Academy”,
  I
  felt
  that

Massive
  Open
  Online
  Courses
  (MOOCs)
  would
  be
  an

interesting
 topic
 to
 explore.

In
 a
 period
 of
 digital
 teaching
 and
 learning,
 there

arises
  MOOCs.
  As
  Tomkin
  &
  Charlevoix
  (2014)

suggest,
 it
 “leverages
 both
 subject
 content
 knowledge

expertise
  by
  a
  professor
  and
  technologies”(p.
  71)
  so

that
 learners
 can
 bene2it
 from
 the
 connected
 learning.

!
!

!

Coursera
 is
 one
 of
 leading
 providers
 of
 MOOCs.
 It

was
  founded
  by
  two
  computer
  science
  professors

from
  Stanford
  University.
  Started
  in
  2012
  working

with
  a
  variety
  of
  privileged
  universities,
  Coursera

primarily
  provides
  courses
  of
  higher
  education
  level.

Until
 March
 19,
 2014,
 there
 had
 been
 3,000,000
 users

in
 Coursera
 community.

With
  the
  curiosity
  of
  how
  these
  renowned

universities
  impart
  knowledge
  through
  such
  an

online
  platform,
  I
  decided
  to
  take
  a
  look
  at
  Coursera

for
 the
 2inal
 project
 for
 my
 Digital
 Literacies
 class.

!

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