As a founding member of Japan Massive Open Online Course (JMOOC, http://www.jmooc.jp/ en/) Consortium, the Open University of Japan (OUJ) opened two MOOCs as the first releases from JMOOC. One of the courses was “NIHONGO STARTER (Japanese primer)” for the starter (A1) level of Japanese language education, which was based on a CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)-oriented curriculum standard developed by the Japan Foundation (JF); another was “Computer system: A primer”, which was remixed from an OUJ regular course. The OUJ MOOC platform is one of the three official platforms approved by JMOOC and powered by “CHiLO Book” system, which a Japanese NPO, CCC-TIES, developed. It was constructed by mash-up technologies of multimedia e-textbooks, LMS and SNSs. It was consisted of iBook or e-pub packaging (e-books), Facebook (registration and learner community), YouTube (video delivery), Moodle (LMS) and Mozilla Open Badge (evaluation). In this presentation, the characteristics of the system and preliminary evaluation in the pilot experiment will be introduced.
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Proceedings of the 2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources: Beyond Advocacy, Research and Policy ( 24-27 June 2014; Penang, Malaysia)
OUJ MOOC platform: a case study of a Japanese MOOC platform
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