When several thousand students are enrolled in a course simultaneously, it is impossible for course staff to individually assess all of them. MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) providers have come up with assessment techniques to cater for this major difference between on-campus and online courses. Continue reading
You open up your course and start watching the videos. Soon your mind is wandering and you realize you haven’t heard the last few minutes. What went wrong? Continue reading
A few months ago, I wrote an essay for A Beginner’s Guide to Writing English for University Study, a course I took through FutureLearn. Continue reading
Today’s blog was inspired by a reader who asked if I had any suggestions for learning a musical instrument over the internet. Continue reading
In many locations, we now take reliable access to the internet for granted. We can take online courses and watch high-definition videos on a computer or even our mobile phone. If the connection drops out or there is a power blackout, it is an irritation.
What about regions or countries where reliable internet access or electricity is unavailable? Can people still learn online? Here are some ways that may help you manage in these difficult circumstances. Continue reading
Readers of past posts here on Online Learning Success may have seen the links to my in-depth course reviews on Class Central, which is a search engine and review site for online courses popularly known as MOOCs Continue reading
Many blogs here at Online Learning Success have discussed online courses. What if you would like help with learning a specific topic, but don’t want to commit to a whole course? For instance, you want to know about square roots in mathematics. Or why World War One started. Or how plants make their own food by photosynthesis.
Amber* is a Civil Engineer, working in Marine Structure Design, who combines part-time work with mothering her two small children. She completed her Bachelor degree as a full-time, on-campus student and has also studied a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and several post-graduate university subjects externally. Continue reading
In today’s world, we are increasingly bombarded with distractions. Recent studies have shown that it can take more than 20 minutes to return productively to an interrupted task. Continue reading
When I retired from paid work in 2012, I thought I would be doing plenty of gardening, some handcrafts and reading. I also had visions of my house sparkling and tidy.
Five years on, most of the garden is again a wilderness and craft time is limited to crochet in front of the television in the evenings. As for that clean and tidy house, the less said, the better. Instead, I have spent many retirement hours completing 90 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and setting up my own blog. Continue reading