Towards MOOCs and their role in engineering education

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

doi:10.1109/ITME.2015.89

Towards MOOCs and their role in engineering education

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

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2015 7th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2015
Editors	Shaozi Li, Ying Dai, Yun Cheng
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	705-709
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467383028
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ITME.2015.89
State	Published - 8 Mar 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	7th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2015 - Huangshan, Anhui, China Duration: 13 Nov 2015 → 15 Nov 2015

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Name	Proceedings - 2015 7th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2015

Conference

Conference	7th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2015
Country/Territory	China
City	Huangshan, Anhui
Period	13/11/15 → 15/11/15

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.

Keywords

Engineering education
MOOCs
Online learning
Open education

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Health Informatics
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Education

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Iqbal, S., Zang, X., Zhu, Y., Hussain, D., Zhao, J., Gulzar, M. M., & Rasheed, S. (2016). Towards MOOCs and their role in engineering education. In S. Li, Y. Dai, & Y. Cheng (Eds.), Proceedings - 2015 7th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2015 (pp. 705-709). Article 7429245 (Proceedings - 2015 7th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITME.2015.89

Iqbal, Sajid ; Zang, Xizhe ; Zhu, Yanhe et al. / Towards MOOCs and their role in engineering education. Proceedings - 2015 7th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2015. editor / Shaozi Li ; Ying Dai ; Yun Cheng. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. pp. 705-709 (Proceedings - 2015 7th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2015).

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Towards MOOCs and their role in engineering education

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