The Design and Implementation of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): English for Pre-Diploma Students

Abstract

Higher institutions are being reshaped to include technology-based syllabus in their curriculum design. It is worth to note that the emerging of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has triggered the university’s curriculum reviewers to include the platform in the syllabus contents. An English MOOC for Pre-Diploma was developed. To evaluate the course developed, the study aims to determine students’ perceptions on the MOOC course. The data were collected via survey and there were 186 respondents involved. Three main areas of the course evaluation were evaluated: 1) Content Evaluation, 2) Instructional Evaluation and 3) Technical Evaluation. The study revealed that content evaluation has the mean value of 4.25 (SD=0.68), technical evaluation with the mean value of 4.24 (SD=0.71) and instructional evaluation with the mean value of 4.14 (SD=0.70). The average mean value reported for three different types of evaluations is 4.21 (SD=0.70). The finding indicates that the respondents are most likely strongly agreed with the course content, instructional and technical part, thus, has effectively helped the users to learn the English language by using MOOC platform.