Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together a global crowd of thousands of learners for several weeks or months. In theory, the openness and scale of MOOCs can promote iterative dialogue that facilitates group cognition and knowledge construction. Using data from two successive instances of a popular business strategy MOOC, we filter observed communication patterns to arrive at the "sign...

One problem that arises with the increasing numbers of students in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is that of student evaluation. The large number of students makes it infeasible for the instructors or the teaching assistants to grade all assignments, while the present auto-grading technology is not feasible for many topics of interest. As a result, there has recently been a great push for ...

I will describe the Santa Fe Institutes Complexity Explorer project, which provides educational materials and free online courses (MOOCs) related to complex systems science. I will talk about the general landscape of MOOCs and specifically about my experience creating and running several MOOCs on the SFIs platform. I will also discuss the many curricular materials our team has developed for tea...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are found to be the latest disruption in online education. Since 2012 up to day, there are many MOOCs introduced in many platforms. Some of the platforms are namely Coursera, edX, NovoEd, FutureLearn, Open2Study. For an instance Coursera has more than 700 courses in their platform. Although there is increase demand for online courses, very less percentage of ...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are being used across the world to provide millions of learners with access to education. Many who begin these courses complete them successfully, or to their own satisfaction, but the high numbers who do not finish remain a subject of concern. In 2013, a team from Stanford University analyzed engagement patterns on three MOOCs run on the Coursera platform. T...

This paper aims to survey language teaching MOOCs that promote intercultural competence (IC). Specifically, the identify keywords most relevant with IC components, languages taught, offering countries, and embedded soft skills. The selection of is important because they can indicate connection between different disciplines. After trialing a broader set in several rounds initial search, we ident...