Leveraging Student Project through MOOC on UX: Case Study (original) (raw)

2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on MOOCs, Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE), 2016

Abstract

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is the best means to learn latest /current technologies which are otherwise difficult to gain access and learn them. A case study of how, MOOC on 'User Experience (UX) provided by Udacity for mobile app' was utilized to enhance the quality of student projects, is presented in this paper. Most of the time, MOOCs are provided by the global experts who teach the course in a best possible way. Also, MOOC directly helps in attaining lifelong learning skills. MOOC can be used in many ways to deliver a curriculum. This paper focuses on, how the learning's and activities specified by MOOC on UX is included as part of student project course, its assessment, evaluation and results. The student projects are mobile apps specified by a company, which emphasized much on UX, the latest industry need. Therefore students were instructed to register for the MOOC on UX and learn on their own. Each student teams had to do UX design as specified in MOOC and same UX design activities were included as a part of project course assessment and evaluated. As a result, students were able to discover additional requirements addressing mobile UX and perform UX based design and construct according to it. These activities helped to attain ABET criteria 'i' with attainment 7.82 on scale of 10.

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