General Education Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Florida XCEL-IT will expand efforts by community colleges to use non-credit courses that are more accessible, to quickly train participants and start them on their career pathway. The developmental education MOOC will be one of the non-credit courses. A large portion of the target population for Florida XCEL-IT lack the knowledge for college level learning in reading, English or math. The MOOC will address this deficiency. Elements of this college readiness or “Dev Ed” MOOC will consist of an enrollment page to capture data on users for evaluation purposes, a pre-test, 24 topic modules and quizzes covering 70 state educational competencies, 180 primary learning activities, 90 optional learning activities, a closing test, and links to follow-up activities. As the name implies, the expected impact is to involve a much larger number of people in a learning and review process than might otherwise not be possible. MOOCs also offer the possibility that a “learning community” effect could emerge as many people get involved and start to chat online or at the local coffee shop about their experiences hopes and/or anxieties about signing up for more college level learning. Ultimately, the spirit of MOOCs is that everyone is a student and everyone is a teacher: a concept that fits well in the rural context of neighbors helping neighbors.
Date:
2017
Primary Material Type:
Online Course
Institution:
College of Central Florida
Project Name:
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Funding Source:
TAACCCT Round 3
Subjects:
Online course, Developmental Education

Industry / Occupation

Industry Partner:
N/A
Industry Sector:
Developmental Education
Occupation:
All Occupations (00-0000)

Education / Instructional Information

Credit Type:
  • Non-Credit
Credential Type:
  • None
Educational Level of Materials:
  • 1st year Community College or equivalent
Time Required:
Several hours per module (4 modules), depending on their computer literacy
Language:
English (United States)
Interactivity Type:
Active - requires user to respond to prompts, questions, etc.
Quality Note:
XCEL-IT hired the services of Program Evaluation and Educational Research Group (PEER) to evaluate the MOOCs format and content. PEER also served as XCEL-IT's third party evaluator.
Quality of Subject Matter was assured by:
  • Consultations during development of instructional materials
  • Participation as an ongoing member of team developing the instructional materials
  • Conducting an evaluation of the instructional materials and providing a report
Quality of Online/Hybrid Course Design assured by:
  • Expertise of Project's Instructional Designers
Course Note:
Developmental Education
SkillsCommons' Material Reused:
N/A
Derivative Work from Other's Materials:
N/A

Accessibility

Accessibility Evaluation Report:
no
Accessibility Features:
  • Text Access - Text to Speech
  • Text Adjust - Compatible
  • Text Adjustment - Adjust Font and Colors
  • Reading Layout - Reflow the Text
  • Reading Layout - Page numbers match printed material
  • Reading Layout - Reflow the Text
  • Reading Order - Digital resource layout
  • Structural Markup - Navigation Text
  • Structural Markup - Lists
  • Structural Markup - eReader application
  • Table Markup
  • Hyperlinks Rendered As Active
  • Colors Compatible With Assistive Technology
  • Contrast Ratio of at Least 4.5:1.
  • Language - Markup
  • Language - Passage Markup
  • Non-Decorative Images Have Alt Text
  • Decorative Images Marked With Null Alt Text
  • Complex Images, Charts, and Graphs Have Text Descriptions
  • Synchronized Text Track
  • Transcript Provided With Audio Content
  • Audio/Video Delivered Via Media Player
  • Non Flickering Content
  • STEM Content (e.g. Mathematics, Chemistry) Markup
  • STEM - Notation markup
  • Interactive - Keyboard
  • Interactive - Markup
  • Interactive - Text prompts

Copyright / Licensing

Primary License:
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.