scholarly journals MOOCs at the Crossroads: A Literature Review and Reflection Drawing upon Discourse Analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Mohebi ◽  
Marcelo F. Ponce
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Key Aspects

This study is a synthesis of 159 articles that were selected for their relevance to comprehend key aspects of the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) phenomenon, from a discourse analysis perspective. Since 2011, MOOCs are expanding worldwide so that the number of subscribers outpointed 101 million at the end of 2018. This paper explores the question whether the MOOCs are the embodiment of the global one-world classroom or whether, instead, they represent a low-cost alternative tailored to a segment that doesn´t have enough time or resources to attend a brick-and-mortar college. In addition, the review tackles the link between motivation and low completion rates. Finally, we discuss the need to devise better methods to assess the pedagogical value of MOOCs.

scholarly journals Elaboração de um framework para MOOC na Formação Contínua de Professores

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (58) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Amado ◽  
Ana Pedro
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Scoping Literature Review

O presente artigo decorre de uma investigação que tem como objetivo contribuir para a estruturação de um referencial para caracterizar Massive Open Online Courses, no âmbito da formação contínua de professores. Neste artigo iremos identificar quais as dimensões que a literatura assinala como adequadas para o design de MOOC. Para isso iremos adotar a abordagem qualitativa scoping literature review, cujo propósito passa por identificar e analisar dimensões formuladas em trabalhos relevantes publicados na área. Foi possível identificar um conjunto de necessidades relacionadas com as ofertas formativas para professores e questões de design de cursos massivos no âmbito da formação contínua de professores. Por aplicação de critérios de elegibilidade foram selecionados para análise nove artigos. Os resultados revelam a existência de um conjunto de recursos e decisões a valorizar e destacar aquando da implementação de cursos massivos para a formação contínua de professores, nomeadamente, os conteúdos, a avaliação, a descrição geral do curso, o público-alvo e a abordagem pedagógica.

scholarly journals Recommender Systems for MOOCs: A Systematic Literature Survey (January 1, 2012 – July 12, 2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-291
Author(s):  
Asra Khalid ◽  
Karsten Lundqvist ◽  
Anne Yates
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Massive Open Online

In recent years, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have gained popularity with learners and providers, and thus MOOC providers have started to further enhance the use of MOOCs through recommender systems. This paper is a systematic literature review on the use of recommender systems for MOOCs, examining works published between January 1, 2012 and July 12, 2019 and, to the best of our knowledge, it is the first of its kind. We used Google Scholar, five academic databases (IEEE, ACM, Springer, ScienceDirect, and ERIC) and a reference chaining technique for this research. Through quantitative analysis, we identified the types and trends of research carried out in this field. The research falls into three major categories: (a) the need for recommender systems, (b) proposed recommender systems, and (c) implemented recommender systems. From the literature, we found that research has been conducted in seven areas of MOOCs: courses, threads, peers, learning elements, MOOC provider/teacher recommender, student performance recommender, and others. To date, the research has mostly focused on the implementation of recommender systems, particularly course recommender systems. Areas for future research and implementation include design of practical and scalable online recommender systems, design of a recommender system for MOOC provider and teacher, and usefulness of recommender systems.  

The MOOCs

2015 ◽  
pp. 228-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. LeCounte ◽  
Detra Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Technological Platform

In this chapter, the authors present the rapid rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) derived from a yearning to create and make widely available materials and conditions for participatory learning and creative space dedicated to the open education. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were developed to provide open, meaning unrestricted, online courses without higher education cost constraints to students. This new technological platform was embraced, developed, and offered by some of the country's leading universities and institutions including Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Students may collaborate through strategic social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Further, according to LeCounte et al. (2014), the social media partnerships have been found to offer competitive advantages in terms of low cost and tremendous visibility to both corporations and institutions of higher learning.

The MOOCs

2016 ◽  
pp. 1829-1848
Author(s):  
John F. LeCounte ◽  
Detra Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Technological Platform

In this chapter, the authors present the rapid rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) derived from a yearning to create and make widely available materials and conditions for participatory learning and creative space dedicated to the open education. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were developed to provide open, meaning unrestricted, online courses without higher education cost constraints to students. This new technological platform was embraced, developed, and offered by some of the country's leading universities and institutions including Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Students may collaborate through strategic social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Further, according to LeCounte et al. (2014), the social media partnerships have been found to offer competitive advantages in terms of low cost and tremendous visibility to both corporations and institutions of higher learning.

Survey of Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Techniques for Mooc-Based Applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossain Shahriar ◽  
Hisham M. Haddad ◽  
David Lebron ◽  
Rubana Lupu
Keyword(s):  
Open Source Software ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Software Security ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Security Vulnerabilities ◽  
Cloud Environments ◽  
Mitigation Techniques

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are commonly hosted as web servers for learners worldwide to access education and learning materials at low cost. Many of the well-known MOOCs have adopted open source software and database technologies and frequently operate within cloud environments. It is likely that the well-known software security vulnerabilities may manifest to MOOC-based applications. Unfortunately, few studies have identified a set of common vulnerabilities applicable to MOOC-based applications. This paper1 presents an exploratory study of potential security vulnerabilities and challenges for MOOC platforms, and it provide some guidelines and suggestions to mitigate these concerns. This study helps practitioners (educators and developers) to adopt MOOC applications while considering potential vulnerabilities and be prepared to deal with these risks.

scholarly journals Evaluation Grid for xMOOCs

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Khalil ◽  
Hubert Brunner ◽  
Martin Ebner
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Massive Open Online

Massive Open Online Courses, shortly MOOCs, are a phenomenon nowadays. The number of courses is worldwide steadily increasing since Sebastian Thrun has offered a free online course for more than 100.000 students. Nowadays, decision makers and students as well as lecturers are asking about the quality of such courses. After a live experiment on 15 randomly chosen courses and a brief literature review, we discuss the possibility of finding an evaluation grid for xMOOCs. The finally suggested criteria can be used now for future investigations.

scholarly journals Initial trends in enrolment and completion of massive open online courses

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Course Length

<p>The past two years have seen rapid development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) with the rise of a number of MOOC platforms. The scale of enrolment and participation in the earliest mainstream MOOC courses has garnered a good deal of media attention. However, data about how the enrolment and completion figures have changed since the early courses is not consistently released. This paper seeks to draw together the data that has found its way into the public domain in order to explore factors affecting enrolment and completion. The average MOOC course is found to enroll around 43,000 students, 6.5% of whom complete the course. Enrolment numbers are decreasing over time and are positively correlated with course length. Completion rates are consistent across time, university rank, and total enrolment, but negatively correlated with course length. This study provides a more detailed view of trends in enrolment and completion than was available previously, and a more accurate view of how the MOOC field is developing.</p>

scholarly journals Troubleshooters for Tasks of Introductory Programming MOOCs

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Lepp ◽  
Tauno Palts ◽  
Piret Luik ◽  
Kaspar Papli ◽  
Reelika Suviste ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Automated Assessment ◽  
Persistent Problem ◽  
Help Systems ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Learning Programming

Learning programming has become more and more popular and organizing introductory massive open online courses (MOOCs) on programming can be one way to bring this education to the masses. While programming MOOCs usually use automated assessment to give feedback on the submitted code, the lack of understanding of certain aspects of the tasks and feedback given by the automated assessment system can be one persistent problem for many participants. This paper introduces troubleshooters, which are help systems, structured like decision trees, for giving hints and examples of certain aspects of the course tasks. The goal of this paper is to give an overview of usability (benefits and dangers) of, and the participants’ feedback on, using troubleshooters. Troubleshooters have been used from the year 2016 in two different programming MOOCs for adults in Estonia. These MOOCs are characterized by high completion rates (50–70%), which is unusual for MOOCs. Data is gathered from the learning analytics integrated into the troubleshooters’ environment, letters from the participants, questionnaires, and tasks conducted through the courses. As it was not compulsory to use troubleshooters, the results indicate that only 19.8% of the users did not use troubleshooters at all and 10% of the participants did not find troubleshooters helpful at all. The main difference that appeared is that the number of questions asked from the organizers about the programming tasks during the courses via helpdesk declined about 29%.

scholarly journals Exploring the Usage of MOOCs in Higher Education Institutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Carolina Costa ◽  
Leonor Teixeira ◽  
Helena Alvelos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Current Usage ◽  
Recent Developments

This article analyses the current usage of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in HEIs. First, a literature review is performed to identify and classify the recent developments in the area and to characterize the most used platforms and courses. Following this, an analysis of MOOCs offered by some HEIs is carried out to characterize and compare the courses available in the platforms. Concerning the main findings, the literature reveals that usage of MOOCs has been growing in recent years and that Coursera and EdX are the two main platforms used. The analysis of MOOCs available in those platforms shows that the number of universities using them and the number of courses offered have been increasing. The comparison between the courses available through the above-mentioned platforms shows that EdX is more interdisciplinary. The outcomes of this article are valuable for researchers on ICT use in HEI and may help professors implementing MOOCs in their own environment.

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