MOOCs Readiness

MOOCs and Beyond

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) might be the proverbial “tipping point” in discussions about the role of information and communication technologies in higher education. To some they offer dramatic cost savings without loss in quality; to others they are best described as MESS (Massive Extension of Sage on the Stage). If the history of IS is any guide, MOOCs portend dramatic changes over tim...

Communication Communities in MOOCs

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together thousands of people from different geographies and demographic backgrounds – but to date, little is known about how they learn or communicate. We introduce a new content-analysed MOOC dataset and use Bayesian Non-negative Matrix Factorization (BNMF) to extract communities of learners based on the nature of their online forum posts. We see that ...

Research on MOOCs Continuance

The hype of MOOCs

MOOCs in fragile contexts

challenges that relate mainly to educational content, cultural and linguistic sensitivity, on-site infrastructure and appropriate needed that address these challenges. This paper reports on a case study involving two refugees living in Dadaab Refugee constraints encountered by these learners, describes temporary solutions adopted as the course evolved, and proposes longterm solutions to be envi...