Series: 2 Let Us Learn How to Develop MOOC

 

The second step is to explore the skills required for designing and developing MOOCs. However, the following skills are required to design and develop the same:

ü Content Knowledge (Subject expert or Mastery on content)

ü Pedagogical Skill

ü Digital Skills (Digital tools and Technologies) 

ü Open Educational Resources, Licensing and Plagiarism Issues 

Content Knowledge: Content knowledge is related with knowledge or mastery about the subject matter. Shulman (1986) stated that content knowledge consists of knowledge of concepts, theories, ideas, organizational frameworks, knowledge of evidence and proof, as well as established practices and approaches toward developing such knowledge. 

Pedagogical Skill: Pedagogical Skill is meant for classroom processes and practices. It is a method of teaching and learning. It is a standard form of knowledge and associated with how students learn, learner engagement, lesson planning, and evaluation devices.

Digital Skills: This skill is concerned with the usage of digital tools to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. “It includes the understanding of the usage of the wide range of digital technology for searching and retrieving information and utilizing it in solving their problems. Spires and Bartlett (2012) categorized digital literacy into three buckets:

ü  Finding and Consuming Digital Content

ü Creating Digital Content

ü Communicating or Sharing it.

Open Educational Resources and Licensing Concerns: Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in digitized or in digitalized or any form that resides in the public domain. These OER have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, effectiveness, adaptation, and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions under the creative commons license. (Wikipedia).

(Prof. Vandana Punia, Dean Faculty of Education, Human Resource Development Centre. Guru Jambheshwar University Of S&T, Hisar. She is also the Course Coordinator of National Resource Center, Pedagogical Innovations and Research Methodology.  (MHRD, Govt. of India).