TY  - GEN
A1  - Staubitz, Thomas
A1  - Meinel, Christoph
T1  - Collaborative Learning in MOOCs - Approaches and Experiments
T2  - 2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference
N2  - This Research-to-Practice paper examines the practical application of various forms of collaborative learning in MOOCs. Since 2012, about 60 MOOCs in the wider context of Information Technology and Computer Science have been conducted on our self-developed MOOC platform. The platform is also used by several customers, who either run their own platform instances or use our white label platform. We, as well as some of our partners, have experimented with different approaches in collaborative learning in these courses. Based on the results of early experiments, surveys amongst our participants, and requests by our business partners we have integrated several options to offer forms of collaborative learning to the system. The results of our experiments are directly fed back to the platform development, allowing to fine tune existing and to add new tools where necessary. In the paper at hand, we discuss the benefits and disadvantages of decisions in the design of a MOOC with regard to the various forms of collaborative learning. While the focus of the paper at hand is on forms of large group collaboration, two types of small group collaboration on our platforms are briefly introduced.
KW  - MOOC
KW  - Collaborative learning
KW  - Peer assessment
KW  - Team based assignment
KW  - Teamwork
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-1-5386-1174-6
SN  - 0190-5848
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  -