https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920001019
Making a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about Astrobiology: Why? For Whom? How?
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
* Corresponding author: charley.lineweaver@anu.edu.au
Published online: 1 February 2019
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are becoming the textbooks of the 21st century. I describe what a MOOC is, and try to answer the questions: Why make a MOOC? Who are MOOCs for? and How to make a MOOC? Anxiety about MOOCs replacing teachers is largely misplaced. I describe my on-going experience of putting together an astrobiology MOOC for the Australian National University.
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