A Decade of MOOCs and Beyond

Professor Irwin KingProf. Irwin King is the Director of the Centre for eLearning Innovation and Technology (ELITE) and Chair of the Computer Science & Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been an evangelist in the use of education technologies in eLearning for the betterment of teaching and learning. His research interests include machine learning, social computing, AI, web intelligence, data mining, and multimedia information processing. In these research areas, he has over 300 technical publications in journals and conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Neural Networks (NN). He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Member, and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE). He is the recipient of the ACM CIKM2019 Test of Time Award, the ACM SIGIR 2020 Test of Time Award, the ACM WSDM 2022 Test of Time Award, and the 2020 APNNS Outstanding Achievement Award for his contributions to social computing with machine learning. He received his B.Sc. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. Professor Wei-I Lee Prof. Wei-I Lee was the first advocator of the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement in Taiwan in 2006. Under his promotion, Taiwanese universities have offered more than 2000 OCWs with full course videos, attracting more than 200,000 unique users every month. In 2013, under the direction of Prof. Lee, National Chiao Tung University (now National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) launched the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform, "ewant," in Taiwan. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Open Education Consortium, OEC, from 2012 to 2014 and is now the Director of Research Center of Higher Educational Resources for Openness (Research Center of HERO) at National Chiao Tung University. Due to his contribution to international open education communities, he was awarded the Open Education Leadership Award of Excellence in 2016 by OEC. In 2017, Prof. Lee initiated Sharing Education Taiwan (SET) movement. Besides being a strong advocator of online learning, Prof. Lee has also utilized online teaching and flip-classroom technique in his own undergraduate and graduate courses since 2007.

Embarking on a MOOC Journey.- Global MOOC Landscape.- MOOC Development in Greater China.- MOOC Policies Across the Globe.- Innovative MOOC Pedagogy and Assessments.- Advanced Technology Empowering MOOCs.- Exploring Global MOOC Ecosystems.- Roles of MOOCs in Times of Crises.- Outlook of MOOCs in Post-Pandemic Era.