Rethinking A Framework for Contextualising and Collaborating in MOOCs by Higher Education Institutions in Africa

Erkkie, Haipinge; Kadhila, Ngepathimo

Rethinking A Framework for Contextualising and Collaborating in MOOCs by Higher Education Institutions in Africa

dc.contributor.author	Erkkie, Haipinge
dc.contributor.author	Kadhila, Ngepathimo
dc.contributor.editor	Panda, Santosh
dc.coverage.spatial	Africa	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-26T17:40:09Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-26T17:40:09Z
dc.date.issued	2021-03-19
dc.description.abstract	Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are online courses that are open to anyone with Internet access. Pioneered in North America, they were developed for contexts with broader access to technology and wider access to the Internet. As globally networked learning environments (GNLEs), MOOCs foster collaborative communities and learning in ways not conceived as feasible until recently. The affordances of MOOCs, such as the ability to access learning beyond one’s immediacy, exemplify their benefits for open and distance learning, especially in developing countries that continue to consume rather than produce online courses. However, the globality of MOOCs and their delivery mode pose a challenge of contextualising learning content to the local needs of educational institutions or individual students that choose to use the courses. This theoretical paper used a desk-research approach by revising literature to investigate and propose ways of contextualising MOOCs to the African higher education setting. It applied the principles of reuse and repurposing learning content, while suggesting the use of mobile learning as a technological delivery solution that is relevant to the local context. The paper also suggests a framework for inter-institutional collaboration for higher education institutions to guide future efforts in the creation and sharing of credit-bearing MOOCs.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v8i1.442
dc.identifier.issn	2311-1550
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11599/3777
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Commonwealth of Learning (COL)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of Learning for Development;Vol 8; No 1
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/	en_US
dc.source.uri	https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/442	en_US
dc.subject	Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)	en_US
dc.subject	Higher Education	en_US
dc.subject	Online Learning	en_US
dc.subject	Connected Learning	en_US
dc.subject	Collaboration	en_US
dc.subject	Models and Frameworks	en_US
dc.title	Rethinking A Framework for Contextualising and Collaborating in MOOCs by Higher Education Institutions in Africa	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US