Researchers in the field of educational technology are paying huge attention to the widespread adoption of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the study of learning online. MOOCs are discussed in many angles including pedagogy, learning sustainability, and business model. However, there are very few discussions around MOOCs personalisation. In this paper, it is aimed to examine and analyse t...

Offerings of electronic courses and degrees are growing at a surprising rate. Some have surmised that E courses represent the future for higher education and that the traditional university may soon be a relic of the past: do E courses represent a significant improvement over traditional pedagogy for educating students? In this context, 305 questionnaires were sent by e-mail to accounting chair...

Today there are thousands of kilometers of freight trackage in the United States over which two—and often more—railways operate regularly and safely. Tracks in Argentina, Canada, Chile, and Japan also have multiple users. Thus there is no question that rail infrastructure can be separated from operations. The question is when it should be, and what are the costs, benefits, and challenges of doi...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer a great opportunity for learners to enjoy learning despite their location or timing. Nevertheless, motives vary between each student and another. In this workshop paper, we are delighted to open discussions on why undergraduates may enroll in their university’s MOOCs? Are they looking for ECTS points? Or do they want to build a stronger background in th...

Several studies have described different hybrid initiatives to integrate MOOCs into traditional higher education. Most of these studies have partially documented students’ perception on hybrid initiatives, measuring course satisfaction among other metrics. Few researchers have reported institutional efforts implied in implementing hybrid initiatives and their benefits from a curriculum perspect...

This paper looks at the increasing popularity of Massive Open and Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Education Resources (OER) offered in Singapore. Despite being a relatively new phenomenon, the Singapore government has collaborated with different organisations to improve the quality and accessibility of MOOCs, and many Institutions of Higher Learning (IHLs) are spearheading efforts to improve OE...

Synthetic molecular motors can be fuelled by the hydrolysis or hybridization of DNA. Such motors can move autonomously and programmably, and long-range transport has been observed on linear tracks. It has also been shown that DNA systems can compute. Here, we report a synthetic DNA-based system that integrates long-range transport and information processing. We show that the path of a motor thr...

Figure 1: Conventional non-shingled writing, on the left, writes data in non-overlapping tracks, width w, with non-magnetized “guard regions”, width g, between tracks. Shingled writing, on the right, leaves residual tracks, width r, less than the width of the written track, width w’, before it writes the next track, largely overlapping adjacent tracks. This increases tracks per inch, increasing...

MOOC learners are able to share responsibilities for their learning. In the same note, course mentors play an important role in improving learning outcomes, assessment and enhancing learning activities. The aim of this paper is to determine some methodologies and approaches that can guide and help course mentors in teaching and management their MOOCs.