doi: 10.18178/ijiet.2024.14.10.2164
The Development of Entrepreneurial Competencies among Students of Various Age Groups within the MOOCs Environment
Olga Akinina1,*
,
Anri Chediia2 ,
Bakyt Syzdykova3 ,
Sergey Vdovin4
- 1Department of Arabic Philology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
- 2Research Laboratory Ecology of Eastern Culture, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
- 3Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, CSE “Kostanay Pedagogical College” of the Department of Education of the Akimat of Kostanay Region, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
- 4Department of Central Asian and the Caucasus, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Manuscript receivedJanuary 16, 2024
- revisedFebruary 15, 2024
- acceptedApril 30, 2024
- publishedOctober 12, 2024
Abstract
This article is dedicated to exploring the peculiarities of developing entrepreneurial competencies among students of different age groups in the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) environment. A model for teaching entrepreneurship in the MOOC environment has been developed. Additionally, the model involves the implementation of pedagogical approaches to the development of entrepreneurial competencies using digital platforms and tools. An educational experiment involving 150 students aged 16 to 60 from Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Romania, and Bulgaria was conducted on the open educational platform Coursera. The study’s results indicated that the correlation of learning outcomes for the older generation was significantly lower than that for the younger generation, regardless of the training type. It was concluded that online courses are effective for both young and elderly respondents, but their learning perception differs. This article can be useful for developers of educational business courses in the MOOC environment that aim to expand the age characteristics of students.
Keywords
- age differences
- e-learning
- entrepreneurial competencies
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
How to Cite
Olga Akinina, Anri Chediia, Bakyt Syzdykova, and Sergey Vdovin, "The Development of Entrepreneurial Competencies among Students of Various Age Groups within the MOOCs Environment," International Journal of Information and Education Technology, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 1335-1343, 2024. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijiet.2024.14.10.2164
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Copyright © 2024 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).