| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 200, 2019
The International Symposium on Education in Astronomy and Astrobiology (ISE2A 2017)
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| Article Number | 01019 | |
| Number of page(s) | 11 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920001019 | |
| Published online | 01 February 2019 | |
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.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019
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