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Teaching Methodologies for Scalable Online Education

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When we talk about open and online education, scalability is often an emerging topic. With globalisation of education, higher education institutes should be prepared to deliver education to a worldwide audience and not just to the selection of students who live in the proximity of the institute. This calls for a completely different approach to education. In this chapter, we explore the teaching methodologies of online education, primarily focusing on SPOCs – Small Private Online Courses. We show that this form of online education captures the many positive aspects of face-to-face education, such as the strengthening of social cohesion and personal commitment. We also show how SPOCs can become even more interesting for higher education when they make better use of the lessons learned in the field of scalability that MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) offer. The teaching methods presented will lead to four tips with hands-on advice for teachers on how to design and deliver online education aiming for deep learning, this being the end goal of higher education.

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    Renee M. Filius & Sabine G. Uijl

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Filius, R.M., Uijl, S.G. (2021). Teaching Methodologies for Scalable Online Education. In: Marcus-Quinn, A., Hourigan, T. (eds) Handbook for Online Learning Contexts: Digital, Mobile and Open. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67349-9_5

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