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Teaching political science with a mooc: analysing the supply side and the demand side

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Baudewyns, Pierre [UCL] Cogels, Maximilien [UCL] Dandache, Sophie [UCL] Hamonic, Ella [UCL] Legrand, Vincent [UCL] Reuchamps, Min [UCL] Schiffino, Nathalie [UCL]

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have been considered by some observers as a powerful media opportunity to improve distant learning. The Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) was the first Belgian university to deliver a political science MOOC (Louv3x), in French, entitled ‘Discovering political science’. This MOOC brings about new challenges as well for the pedagogical team that created the course as for the students to whom it is addressed. The objective of this paper is twofold: On the one hand, we want to illustrate the challenges a pedagogical team faces when transforming a ‘traditional’ political science introductory course into a MOOC. On the other hand, we aim at exploring how the use of a MOOC might impact the learning outcome within on-campus and worldwide students

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2018
Language Anglais
Journal information "European Political Science" - Vol. 17, no. 2, p. 276-295 (2018)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. ((United Kingdom) Basingstoke)
issn 1680-4333
e-issn 1682-0983
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSH/SPLE - Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe
UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Keywords MOOC ; Teaching ; Retention ; Political Science
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Bibliographic reference Baudewyns, Pierre ; Cogels, Maximilien ; Dandache, Sophie ; Hamonic, Ella ; Legrand, Vincent ; et. al. Teaching political science with a mooc: analysing the supply side and the demand side. In: European Political Science, Vol. 17, no. 2, p. 276-295 (2018)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/182342