DocumentCode
253443
Title
Experiments for real practice of the Óbuda University
Author
Hegyesi, Franciska ; Kartyas, Gyula
Author_Institution
Kando Kalman Fac. of Electr. Eng., Obuda Univ., Budapest, Hungary
fYear
2014
fDate
3-5 July 2014
Firstpage
137
Lastpage
141
Abstract
More and more adults return to school, they chose courses from a variety of universities. Some chose further training because they want to change their jobs, others because they need a degree to progress in their carriers. Worldwide this tendency was speed as MOOC concept. "The New York Times" named 2012 the year of MOCC. The MOOC expression was created by Dave Cormier and Bryan Alexander in 2008 as an answer to the "Connectivism and Connectie Knowledge" (CCK08) course. The course had 25 paying and 2200 independent students. Every course was accessible in some form of online system, which had communication sharing opportunities, like blogs. The University of Óbuda would like to use more vigorously the program started in 2013, in which the students could access as much as possible learning materials for their chosen courses. In the second half of 2013-2014 academic year, the university made accessible 5 free of choice e-learning courses, in which students did not have personal contact with a teacher. This presentation summarizes the opinions of our students about these 5 online courses, the teaching staff, the University\´s support of adult education and the expectations of our students how study either on a distance learning or correspondence courses.
Keywords
Internet; computer aided instruction; distance learning; educational courses; educational institutions; CCK08 course; Connectivism and Connectie Knowledge course; MOOC concept; Óbuda University; The New York Times; adult education university support; communication sharing opportunities; correspondence courses; distance learning; e-learning courses; learning materials; online courses; online system; teaching staff; Conferences; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Least squares approximations; Materials;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES), 2014 18th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Tihany
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/INES.2014.6909357
Filename
6909357
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