類YouTube MOOCs平台之設計與實作

Design and Implementation of YouTube-like MOOCs Platforms

曾婉頤(Wan-Yi Zeng)

指導教授 ： 黃育賢

共同指導教授 ： 王永鐘

國立臺北科技大學/電資學院/電腦與通訊研究所/碩士(2014年)

摘要

大規模開放式線上課程(Massive Open Online Courses，MOOCs)是現在熱門的線上教學工具之一，但許多MOOCs平台都採用會員制，並以課程為主題規劃介面，既不公開給未註冊訪客學習，也沒提供預覽功能，容易阻礙新訪客的使用意願。因此，本論文便提出從介面設計、課程錄製和學習功能三個方面，實作一個親切且容易使用的MOOCs平台。
本論文改寫自PHP Melody開放原始碼，介面設計參考影片分享最成功的YouTube平台作為依據，除了變更原有的排版設計和操作模式外，亦將各種影片瀏覽功能加入平台頁面，包含熱門影片、最新影片、推薦影片和相關影片等瀏覽分類，藉此媒合使用者的行為模式，提高使用意願；課程錄製部分則直接整合現有的課程錄製系統播放器，並利用同步更新機制，定時將錄製完成的影片匯入平台，藉此減少錄製端的重複開發；另外，為了幫助學生學習課程，本論文除了加入私人筆記，可記錄文字和播放時間點之外，也新增了線上直播功能，讓學生在收看直播的同時，也能立即發問或討論，實際可作為線上問答、課後輔導或即時教學之用。
平台架構則採用MVC (Model-View-Controller)軟體設計，將網頁採用的模組、介面和控制行為分開撰寫，並使用PHP的Smarty樣板引擎分離程式邏輯與視覺設計，不只簡化平台的開發流程，也有助於開發人員分工合作增加變動彈性，讓平台更容易開發和維護。

關鍵字

磨課師 ； PHP Melody ； YouTube ； MVC ； Smarty樣板引擎

並列摘要

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is a kind of online learning platforms. Most MOOCs platform are restricted by member account and courses, so guest can’t watch course videos directly. Even be a registered member also can’t review course videos unless join the course. Therefore, in this thesis, we base on open source software, PHP Melody, to implement a friendly and easy to use MOOCs platform. The proposed MOOCs platform integrated with lecture recording system for use in TaipeiTech. It provided living video with online discussion rooms that the user can ask questions or discuss immediately. The proposed MOOCs platform also provided private notes to record text and timestamp for user easy to find the video key points. This proposed MOOCs platform is designed by MVC (Model-View-Controller) software architectural pattern. We also apply the Smarty Template Engine which separate the PHP logical and visual design of the platform to simplify the development process and increase the design flexibility of the interface.

並列關鍵字

MOOCs ； PHP Melody ； MVC ； Smarty Template Engine

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