• DocumentCode
    3759068
  • Title

    Towards MOOCs and Their Role in Engineering Education

  • Author

    Sajid Iqbal;Xizhe Zang;Yanhe Zhu;Danish Hussain;Jie Zhao;Muhammad Majid Gulzar;Shahid Rasheed

  • Author_Institution
    Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    705
  • Lastpage
    709
  • Abstract
    Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the latest installment in the field of distance education. This paper discusses the pros and cons of MOOCs in the educational systems with a special emphasis on the engineering education. Since 2012, more and more universities have been joining MOOC revolution and the number of online courses has considerably increased over time. Engineering MOOCs are also increasing. Due to their access to large audience, massive online courses have been expanding their horizon of admission to engineering education at all levels and improving the in-campus learning.
  • Keywords
    "Engineering education","Technological innovation","Internet","Chaos","Life sciences"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Technology in Medicine and Education (ITME), 2015 7th International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITME.2015.89
  • Filename
    7429245
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3759068