OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES and OPEN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES are gaining attention as instruments of change in education. MOOCs offer a viable approach to build capacity in their adoption and integration quickly and on a large scale. However contemporary approaches to the design of MOOCs are failing to make most of the opportunities they afford. There is an urgent need to rethink and re-imagine MOOCs that are practice-based and context focused as opposed to being content-driven. This blog-stream captures our experiences in designing and developing MOOCs with a difference — ones that mirror best practices and sound principles of learning and teaching online, and in our pursuit of answers to the question, ‘“How best to design MOOCs on OER and OEP for continuing professional development of practitioners.
Shironica P. Karunanayaka (On behalf of the CPD MOOC TEAM @ OUSL)