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How a MOOC-Like Course is Facilitating Teachers' Continuing Education and Teachers' Professional Learning Community?
How a MOOC-Like Course is Facilitating Teachers' Continuing Education and Teachers' Professional Learning Community?

Author(s): Sabine Wollscheid, Cathrine Tomte, Jorgen Sjaastad, Siri Aanstad
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Higher Education
Published by: European Distance and E-Learning Network
Keywords: Collaborative learning; Communication and learning; Competence development; MOOCs; Training of teachers / trainers

Summary/Abstract: Within higher education, the supply of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has rapidly increased, both in numbers and in variation of different types. While the literature on different kinds of MOOCs is growing in general, manifested by a couple of systematic reviews (Hayes, 2015; Liy

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 232-238
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English