Flipped MOOCs as a Pathway towards Education 4.0

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have slowly penetrated higher education as an easy-access low-cost auxiliary arm, with the possibility of transforming the roles of institutions, teachers and students in the new realm of Education 4.0. In fact, MOOCs may ultimately influence both continuing education of engineering graduates and degree-seeking students. Flipped MOOCs, on the other hand, have emerged as promising and engaging interactive learning media to both students and teachers. Introducing a lab component into a flipped-MOOC may extend its utilization to cover all levels of Bloom's taxonomy, and thus provide a learning model that is convenient to students at different levels of education. A flipped-MOOC Lab on renewable energy is therefore presented as a sample for universities in the process of reform of teaching methodologies and pedagogies.