{"id":967,"date":"2018-05-04T12:33:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/?p=967"},"modified":"2018-05-04T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:33:56","slug":"quality-assurance-in-moocs-critical-inquiry-research-log-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/quality-assurance-in-moocs-critical-inquiry-research-log-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Assurance in MOOCs &#8211; Critical Inquiry Research Log #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my first entry for my reflective critical inquiry research log.<\/p>\n<p>Up until this point I have found plenty of information on quality assurance on MOOCs as a whole, but only a few articles that specifically relate to edX.\u00a0 I suspect that information on quality assurance from one MOOC can be transferred to another MOOC (as long as they are similar i.e. xMOOC compared to an xMOOC), but I need to find research to back this up in order to apply any research on MOOC quality assurance to edX.<\/p>\n<p>RESEARCH LOG<\/p>\n<table dir=\"ltr\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"109\" \/>\n<col width=\"295\" \/>\n<col width=\"357\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Date<\/td>\n<td>Task<\/td>\n<td>Comments<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20-Apr-2018<\/td>\n<td>Published Unit 1 Activity 3 to Blog<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>24-Apr-2018<\/td>\n<td>Review blog comments and respond<\/td>\n<td>Incorporated comments from Irwin and Krista into my plan for completing Assignment 1 Critical Inquiry part 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>26-Apr-2018<\/td>\n<td>Team Awesome Sauce Virtual Meeting<\/td>\n<td>Had issues with Appear.in, then Google Hangouts. We ended up in our RRU Collaborate room. Meeting went well and we re-focused our plan of attack for the group presentation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>28-Apr-2018<\/td>\n<td>Conducted 3 hours of research into topic<\/td>\n<td>Focused on RRU Library search and Google Scholar to find articles. Fairly successful as I was able to find 6 more articles related to quality assurance in MOOCs. I was not very successful in finding research that related specifically to quality assurance at edX however.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1-May-2018<\/td>\n<td>Started back at work<\/td>\n<td>My year sabbatical is over. Expect that much of my work will now have to be done after hours so I will have to readjust my working schedule<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2-May-2018<\/td>\n<td>Started writing Assign 1 Part 4 outline<\/td>\n<td>Started to write the outline for Assignment 1 Part 4&#8230;I am a little unclear of the expectations. Asked Dr. DeVries for clarification via moodle discussion board<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3-May-2018<\/td>\n<td>Conducted 2 hours of web research<\/td>\n<td>Conducted 2 more hours of web research for articles. Focused more on perspectives of MOOC quality form the viewpoint of the learner and facilitator. Found 3 articles that will be helpful in writing my final paper.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4-May-2018<\/td>\n<td>Published first research log to my blog<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my first entry for my reflective critical inquiry research log. Up until this point I have found plenty of information on quality assurance on MOOCs as a whole, but only a few articles that specifically relate to edX.\u00a0 I suspect that information on quality assurance from one MOOC can be transferred to another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/quality-assurance-in-moocs-critical-inquiry-research-log-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quality Assurance in MOOCs &#8211; Critical Inquiry Research Log #1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt526","tag-lrnt-526"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}