Investigating MOOCs through blog mining

MOOCs (massive open online course) is a disruptive innovation and a current buzzword in higher education. However, the discussion of MOOCs is disparate, fragmented, and distributed among different outlets. Systematic, extensively published research on MOOCs is unavailable. This paper adopts a novel...

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Autor principal:	Yong Chen
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2014
Materias:	MOOC MOOCs Online learning blog mining Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/5222fe2829f94e99b38efc77711e5765
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5222fe2829f94e99b38efc77711e57652021-12-02T19:20:49ZInvestigating MOOCs through blog mining10.19173/irrodl.v15i2.16951492-3831https://doaj.org/article/5222fe2829f94e99b38efc77711e57652014-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1695https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 MOOCs (massive open online course) is a disruptive innovation and a current buzzword in higher education. However, the discussion of MOOCs is disparate, fragmented, and distributed among different outlets. Systematic, extensively published research on MOOCs is unavailable. This paper adopts a novel method called blog mining to analyze MOOCs. The findings indicate, while MOOCs have benefitted learners, providers, and faculty who develop and teach MOOCs, challenges still exist, such as questionable course quality, high dropout rate, unavailable course credits, ineffective assessments, complex copyright, and limited hardware. Future research should explore the position of MOOCs and how it can be sustained. Yong ChenAthabasca University PressarticleMOOCMOOCsOnline learningblog miningSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 15, Iss 2 (2014)
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description	MOOCs (massive open online course) is a disruptive innovation and a current buzzword in higher education. However, the discussion of MOOCs is disparate, fragmented, and distributed among different outlets. Systematic, extensively published research on MOOCs is unavailable. This paper adopts a novel method called blog mining to analyze MOOCs. The findings indicate, while MOOCs have benefitted learners, providers, and faculty who develop and teach MOOCs, challenges still exist, such as questionable course quality, high dropout rate, unavailable course credits, ineffective assessments, complex copyright, and limited hardware. Future research should explore the position of MOOCs and how it can be sustained.
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Investigating MOOCs through blog mining

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