How Well Are Current OCW Offerings Meeting Users' Expectation?:A Study from Presentation Format and Delivery Mode Perspective
L. Jin, W. Xie, and R. Shen. The 14th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2011), Cambridge, UK, (July 2011)
Abstract
While Open Courseware (OCW) initiatives have
been widely adopted by universities, little attention has
been paid to whether the presentation formats and delivery
modes of current OCW offerings are satisfying from end
users’ perspectives. To address this issue, we executed two
surveys, the first one covering technical aspects of OCWs,
such as presentation formats, delivery mode, and the
second one inquiring about the users’ perspective. From
the technical survey, we find that while current OCWs use
different kind of presentation formats, such as text,
screencast video, all of them are delivered in
asynchronous mode in which learners can only access
courseware produced in advance. The second survey
indicates that richness of the media and availability of live
access in OCW are among the users’ top concerns. Based
on these results, we propose an optimized presentation
format and a live open course model to further improve
the users’ satisfaction of OCW.
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%A Xie, Weikai
%A Shen, Ruimin
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%X While Open Courseware (OCW) initiatives have
been widely adopted by universities, little attention has
been paid to whether the presentation formats and delivery
modes of current OCW offerings are satisfying from end
users’ perspectives. To address this issue, we executed two
surveys, the first one covering technical aspects of OCWs,
such as presentation formats, delivery mode, and the
second one inquiring about the users’ perspective. From
the technical survey, we find that while current OCWs use
different kind of presentation formats, such as text,
screencast video, all of them are delivered in
asynchronous mode in which learners can only access
courseware produced in advance. The second survey
indicates that richness of the media and availability of live
access in OCW are among the users’ top concerns. Based
on these results, we propose an optimized presentation
format and a live open course model to further improve
the users’ satisfaction of OCW.
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been widely adopted by universities, little attention has
been paid to whether the presentation formats and delivery
modes of current OCW offerings are satisfying from end
users’ perspectives. To address this issue, we executed two
surveys, the first one covering technical aspects of OCWs,
such as presentation formats, delivery mode, and the
second one inquiring about the users’ perspective. From
the technical survey, we find that while current OCWs use
different kind of presentation formats, such as text,
screencast video, all of them are delivered in
asynchronous mode in which learners can only access
courseware produced in advance. The second survey
indicates that richness of the media and availability of live
access in OCW are among the users’ top concerns. Based
on these results, we propose an optimized presentation
format and a live open course model to further improve
the users’ satisfaction of OCW.},
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title = {How Well Are Current OCW Offerings Meeting Users' Expectation?:A Study from Presentation Format and Delivery Mode Perspective},
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