What Research Says About MOOCs – An Explorative Content Analysis

Since the first offering of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in 2008, the body of literature on this new phenomenon of open learning has grown tremendously. In this regard, this article intends to identify and map patterns in research on MOOCs by reviewing 362 empirical articles published in peer...

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Autores principales:	Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Aras Bozkurt, Uthman Alturki, Ahmed Aldraiweesh
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2018
Materias:	distance education open and distance learning massive open online courses MOOCs content analysis Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/5a7bfeea47ce4061982ff2b97f4c0024
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5a7bfeea47ce4061982ff2b97f4c00242021-12-02T19:25:21ZWhat Research Says About MOOCs – An Explorative Content Analysis10.19173/irrodl.v19i1.33561492-3831https://doaj.org/article/5a7bfeea47ce4061982ff2b97f4c00242018-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3356https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Since the first offering of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in 2008, the body of literature on this new phenomenon of open learning has grown tremendously. In this regard, this article intends to identify and map patterns in research on MOOCs by reviewing 362 empirical articles published in peer-reviewed journals from 2008 to 2015. For the purposes of this study, a text-mining tool was used to analyse the content of the published research journal articles and to reveal the major themes and concepts covered in the publications. The findings reveal that the MOOC literature generally focuses on four lines of research: (a) the potential and challenges of MOOCs for universities; (b) MOOC platforms; (c) learners and content in MOOCs; and (d) the quality of MOOCs and instructional design issues. Prospective researchers may use these results to gain an overview of this emerging field, as well as to explore potential research directions. Olaf Zawacki-RichterAras BozkurtUthman AlturkiAhmed AldraiweeshAthabasca University Pressarticledistance educationopen and distance learningmassive open online coursesMOOCscontent analysisSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 19, Iss 1 (2018)
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description	Since the first offering of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in 2008, the body of literature on this new phenomenon of open learning has grown tremendously. In this regard, this article intends to identify and map patterns in research on MOOCs by reviewing 362 empirical articles published in peer-reviewed journals from 2008 to 2015. For the purposes of this study, a text-mining tool was used to analyse the content of the published research journal articles and to reveal the major themes and concepts covered in the publications. The findings reveal that the MOOC literature generally focuses on four lines of research: (a) the potential and challenges of MOOCs for universities; (b) MOOC platforms; (c) learners and content in MOOCs; and (d) the quality of MOOCs and instructional design issues. Prospective researchers may use these results to gain an overview of this emerging field, as well as to explore potential research directions.
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What Research Says About MOOCs – An Explorative Content Analysis

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