Instructional design of e-content in massive open online course platforms for higher education: An overview

Abstract

In the technologically advanced digital era, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms provide huge opportunity to the interested learners for continuous learning and enables to achieve their goals. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based MOOC platforms play a vital role in enhancing the knowledge and skills of the people by giving access to higher quality courses. These platforms are convenient for the people who are capable of self-learning irrespective of their geographical locations. Hence, it is the time for the higher education authorities across the globe to design more MOOC platforms with suitable Electronic-content (E-content), so that the learners can upscale their skills. The E-learning designers use Instructional Design (ID) models to create E-content in the MOOC platforms. This paper emphasis on the development of the instructional design of digital content included in the MOOC platforms. Also, this paper discuses five popular and widely accepted ID models - “Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction model”, “Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate (ADDIE) model”, “Dick and Carey model”, “Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised model”, “Merrill’s Principles of Instruction (MPI) model” - used by the E-learning designers for creating effective E-content.