Teacher Education MOOCs for Developing World Contexts: Issues and Design Considerations
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There is a massive shortage of teachers worldwide. This shortage is particularly acute in developing countries. Distance-oriented education has been hailed as one of the possible solutions for resolving this problem. In recent years, new generations of Webbased distance-oriented education models have come to the fore; the latest of which are MOOCs. In this paper, the issues and design consideration for MOOCs will be discussed. These include the pedagogical affordances that MOOCs must have for their successful contribution to teacher education, the suitability of MOOCs for teacher education in developing world contexts and the technological affordances vis-à-vis the needs of the learner, existing technological infrastructures, and e-learning readiness skills.
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