Title: Technical Analysis of MOOCs Authors: Onița Mihai, Mihăescu Vlad, Vasiu Radu Abstract: Lately, the globalization and massification of higher education offer involved more and more e-learning techniques inside universities. The article brings a perspective on our analyses of different trends in online education, especially MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Our research raised some questions, which are answered in this article, such as: What are the most important players/MOOCs? How can educational video content be classified? We analyse the technological particularities of MOOCs and focus more on what we think to be one of the main pillars of e-learning, the video lectures, offering our findings, together with recommendations for future MOOC creators. Keywords – MOOC, video lectures, audio-video metadata, video distribution platform, profile technology. |
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Cite: Onița Mihai, Mihăescu Vlad, Vasiu Radu.(2015).Technical Analysis of MOOCs.TEM Journal, 4(1), 60-72. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download: full text ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |