MOOC in a school environment: ODL project

Abstract

Unlike schools 15 years ago, contemporary schools use many ICT tools in their classes, e.g. computers, tablets, smartphones, etc. accompanying by open educational software, OER and apps. Teachers gradually turned to more student-centred approaches like inquiry, game-based, project-building, flipped learning, learning-by-teaching to name only but a few. Personalized teaching and learning supported by all these approaches help schools offer more effective and efficient education. Although Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have proved to be helpful in university and adult education, until now they has not been yet deployed in school education. The ‘Open Discovery of STEM Laboratories’ project (ODL) exploits this potential and opens up MOOCs for it. In this paper, we discuss the first results of this implementation.