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Factors Influencing the Sustainability of MOOCs Compared with Traditional Distance Education Courses

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Abstract

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Informatics and e-learning (IIE), have offered distance education courses for more than twenty years. In the years 2014–2016 we tried out a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) model for course delivery.

We compared the two models of delivering the courses. A total of thirty success factors for sustainability were used to evaluate the Distance Education in three time frames and the new MOOC package. The result indicates that sustainability can be achieved if institutions are willing or able to implement more flexibility in organising their course packages.

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    NITOL – Norway net with IT in Online Learning.

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    TISIP – a small research foundation in Norway.

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    CCeD – A method called Concurrent e-Learning Design.

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  1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Thorleif Hjeltnes & Svend Andreas Horgen

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  1. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Dickson K.W. Chiu

  2. Leibniz University of Hanover, Hannover, Germany

    Ivana Marenzi

  3. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Umberto Nanni

  4. University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France

    Marc Spaniol

  5. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Marco Temperini

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Hjeltnes, T., Horgen, S.A. (2016). Factors Influencing the Sustainability of MOOCs Compared with Traditional Distance Education Courses. In: Chiu, D., Marenzi, I., Nanni, U., Spaniol, M., Temperini, M. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2016. ICWL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47440-3_14

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