From SPOC to MPOC -- The Effective Practice of Peking University Online Teacher Training

Author

Wenge Guo

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Educ., Peking Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

27-29 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

258

Lastpage

264

Abstract

MPOC-Massive Private Online Course, is an online teacher training course developed by Peking University in 2006. This course was designed on the model of SPOC, 20-25 trainees each online class. But influenced by the prejudice of Online Course in China and lower tuition, the real size of the online class is between 80 to 120. An online facilitator is assigned to the online class to lead online trainees to fulfil the online learning activities, assess their achievements and provide feedback to trainees timely. From 2007-2013, nearly 500000 k-12 teachers had enrolled this online training course in about 5000 online classes, about 2000 online facilitators had joined the online training program, figured out an effective K-12 teacher MPOC online teacher training practice in China.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; educational courses; teacher training; China; K-12 teacher MPOC online teacher training; Peking University online teacher training course; SPOC; massive private online course; online learning activities; Courseware; Educational institutions; Manuals; Media; Training; MPOC; National Teacher Training Plan; SPOC; teacher training;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Educational Innovation through Technology (EITT), 2014 International Conference of

Conference_Location

Brisbane

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4231-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EITT.2014.48

Filename

6982595