Promoting Transformative Citizenship in Diverse Society: An Appraisal of Massive Open Online Course as a Teaching Platform

Abstract

This study discusses a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) a s an alternative teaching platform with the purpose to promote topics of transformative citizenship in Indonesian diverse society. Designed by collaborative works of the Dialogue, Empathic Engagement and Peacebuilding (DEEP) Network and eight prominent universities in Indonesia, this course namely the MOOC Citizenship has bridges both educators and learners across the country to broaden their perspecti ve and knowledge on citizenships. Through qualitative analyzes, this study found that the MOOC Citizenship had been particularly successful in enhancing learners’ skills in conducting action research project as an actual contrib ution to the community. Additionally, the par ticipated educators were emphasized both benefits and challenges of having the Citizenship MOOC. This study argued that MOOC is a potential alternative of teaching platform, especially when it involved multidisciplinary perspectives for broader outreach. H owever, it is necessary to ensure the technological preparedness of the users (both learners and educators) are well established.