In the previous blog post about our experience in creating videos, we mentioned how videos are a major component in MOOCs’ learning designs. Videos in MOOCs not only provide a different type of learning, but they also allow participants to interact with the content and share what they learned by building online learning communities. In this blog, we discuss how MOOCs facilitate knowledge and information sharing between participants through collaborative learning environments.

For the last four years, the RELIEF center has been designing and developing MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) with several partners based in Lebanon and in different regions of the world on different topics that are up-to-date with people’s current interests and needs. In this series of blogs, we’re going to present the best practices, challenges, and lessons learned from our experience working on MOOCs delivered in English and Arabic. By sharing our experience, we hope to play an important role in online learning for adults and bring you new ideas, whether you work in the online learning field or plan to do so.