Growth and Collaboration in Massive Open Online Courses: A Bibliometric Analysis

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are an important approach for achieving UNESCO’s aim of open and accessible education. However, there are concerns regarding fragmentation or bias of MOOCs toward certain disciplines or countries. This study sought to: (a) examine how MOOCs research has evolved an...

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Autores principales:	Ratnaria Wahid, Aidi Ahmi, A.S.A Ferdous Alam
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2020
Materias:	massive open online courses MOOCs distance education online learning collaborative research inclusiveness Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8a678cf49f814a728480b39c96b9cd9a2021-12-02T17:00:16ZGrowth and Collaboration in Massive Open Online Courses: A Bibliometric Analysis10.19173/irrodl.v21i4.46931492-3831https://doaj.org/article/8a678cf49f814a728480b39c96b9cd9a2020-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/4693https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are an important approach for achieving UNESCO’s aim of open and accessible education. However, there are concerns regarding fragmentation or bias of MOOCs toward certain disciplines or countries. This study sought to: (a) examine how MOOCs research has evolved and is distributed, (b) determine what key areas are discussed in MOOCs research, and (c) identify the major players in MOOCs research and their collaborations. This study conducted a bibliometric analysis of 3,118 scholarly works related to MOOCs as recorded in the Scopus database in July, 2019. Specifically, we analyzed the evolution of MOOCs research by examining (a) published studies, (b) source titles, (c) types of sources and documents, as well as (d) the languages in which the documents were written in. We further analyzed the key areas of MOOCs research by looking into common subject areas, keywords used most often, and title analysis. Finally, we sought to increase our understanding of the major players in MOOCs research and their collaborations by examining (a) which countries contributed most to MOOCs research, (b) the main institutions involved, as well as (c) authorship and citation analysis. Findings indicated that in their early development starting in 2009, MOOCs caught the attention of scholars from both the East and the West, and the number of publications grew consistently over the 10 years after that. MOOCs research has been well distributed but has yet to adequately encourage inclusiveness. There has been healthy cross-country collaboration, but there is a gap in MOOCs research originating from certain countries as compared to the rest of the world. Our findings provide important input towards improving the inclusivity and global reach of MOOCs. Ratnaria WahidAidi AhmiA.S.A Ferdous AlamAthabasca University Pressarticlemassive open online coursesMOOCsdistance educationonline learningcollaborative researchinclusivenessSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 21, Iss 4 (2020)
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spellingShingle	massive open online courses MOOCs distance education online learning collaborative research inclusiveness Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Ratnaria Wahid Aidi Ahmi A.S.A Ferdous Alam Growth and Collaboration in Massive Open Online Courses: A Bibliometric Analysis
description	Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are an important approach for achieving UNESCO’s aim of open and accessible education. However, there are concerns regarding fragmentation or bias of MOOCs toward certain disciplines or countries. This study sought to: (a) examine how MOOCs research has evolved and is distributed, (b) determine what key areas are discussed in MOOCs research, and (c) identify the major players in MOOCs research and their collaborations. This study conducted a bibliometric analysis of 3,118 scholarly works related to MOOCs as recorded in the Scopus database in July, 2019. Specifically, we analyzed the evolution of MOOCs research by examining (a) published studies, (b) source titles, (c) types of sources and documents, as well as (d) the languages in which the documents were written in. We further analyzed the key areas of MOOCs research by looking into common subject areas, keywords used most often, and title analysis. Finally, we sought to increase our understanding of the major players in MOOCs research and their collaborations by examining (a) which countries contributed most to MOOCs research, (b) the main institutions involved, as well as (c) authorship and citation analysis. Findings indicated that in their early development starting in 2009, MOOCs caught the attention of scholars from both the East and the West, and the number of publications grew consistently over the 10 years after that. MOOCs research has been well distributed but has yet to adequately encourage inclusiveness. There has been healthy cross-country collaboration, but there is a gap in MOOCs research originating from certain countries as compared to the rest of the world. Our findings provide important input towards improving the inclusivity and global reach of MOOCs.
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title	Growth and Collaboration in Massive Open Online Courses: A Bibliometric Analysis
title_short	Growth and Collaboration in Massive Open Online Courses: A Bibliometric Analysis
title_full	Growth and Collaboration in Massive Open Online Courses: A Bibliometric Analysis
title_fullStr	Growth and Collaboration in Massive Open Online Courses: A Bibliometric Analysis
title_full_unstemmed	Growth and Collaboration in Massive Open Online Courses: A Bibliometric Analysis
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Growth and Collaboration in Massive Open Online Courses: A Bibliometric Analysis

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