Professional Development Through MOOCs in Higher Education Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities for PhD Students Working as Mentors
Professional Development Through MOOCs in Higher Education Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities for PhD Students Working as Mentors
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高等教育机构通过 MOOC 进行专业发展：作为导师的博士生面临的挑战和机遇
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2016
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S. White
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Manuel León Urrutia;S. Fielding;S. White
近年来，大规模开放式在线课程（MOOC）的出现改变了高等教育的格局。这类课程正在越来越多的大学中渗透，其中大多数似乎无意在短期内停止提供这些课程。这些课程正在产生大学必须适应的新的教育情景，这带来了一系列挑战和机遇，其中大多数与教育中的技术使用有关。本研究旨在阐明大学聘请研究生担任MOOC导师时面临的挑战和机遇。在本研究中，我们在一所英国大学对不同学科的博士生进行了一系列焦点小组访谈。在访谈中，参与者分享了他们作为导师的经验，特别是关于他们如何发展某些教学和数字技能，以及他们如何面对与他们的数字身份相关的某些挑战。结果表明，作为导师参加MOOC可以帮助早期职业研究人员发展某些教学，数字和学术技能，这些技能可能对他们工作的机构和他们自己都有益。然而，他们的网上曝光有时会对他们的公众形象、工作条件和网上职业身份产生某些影响。
The advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has been altering the Higher Education landscape in recent years. This kind of courses are penetrating in an increasing number of universities, the majority of which do not seem to have intentions to stop offering them in the short term. Such courses are generating new educational scenarios to which universities have to adapt, which creates a set of challenges and opportunities, most of them related to the use of technology in education. This study aims to shed light on such challenges and opportunities when a university employs postgraduate students as MOOC mentors. For this study, a set of focus group interviews were conducted in an English university to PhD students in various disciplines. In the interviews, participants share their experiences as mentors, especially regarding how they developed certain teaching and digital skills, and how they faced certain challenges related to their digital identity. The results suggest that participating in MOOCs as mentors can help early career researchers to develop certain teaching, digital, and academic skills that could be beneficial for the institutions they work for, and for themselves. However, their online exposure sometimes raises certain implications for their public image, their working conditions, and their online professional identity.