With an expansive and ubiquitously available gold mine of educational data, Massive Open Online courses (MOOCs) have become the an important foci of learning analytics research. The hope is that this new surge of development will bring the vision of equitable access to lifelong learning opportunities within practical reach. MOOCs offer many valuable learning experiences to students, from video ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are classes delivered in an online environment with several features that are different from previous approaches to online education. The effectiveness of MOOCs is an open question as completion rates are substantially less than traditional online education courses. The objective of this study is to identify factors that enhance an individual' intention to co...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained popularity in the past few years as a new form of open learning. Unlike assessment in classroom settings, the methodology to assess learning in open environments such as MOOCs represents a big challenge from the pedagogical perspective. Thus, there is a need to think about scalable assessment methods for accrediting and recognizing learning in MOO...

MOOCs are world-wide online courses with the purpose of open visit and massive participation, which is the newly-booming course model in the global educational field. The article firstly introduces the outline of MOOCs in terms of types, theoretical foundations, features in course models and contents, and then analyzes the impacts of MOOCs on Chinese college English teaching including the quali...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. ABSTRACT Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are growing substantially in numbers, and also in interest from the educational community. MOOCs offer particu...

There is a massive shortage of teachers worldwide. This shortage is particularly acute in developing countries. Distance-oriented education has been hailed as one of the possible solutions for resolving this problem. In recent years, new generations of Webbased distance-oriented education models have come to the fore; the latest of which are MOOCs. In this paper, the issues and design considera...

The proliferation of massive open online courses or MOOCs has proven disruptive to the traditional educational enterprise. While there is an on going debate about the future of MOOCs, it has already shown effective results for particular cohort of learners. This research investigates the adoption of MOOCs as a disruptive initiative in developing countries, and in particular in Papua New Guinea ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have great potential to provide learning opportunities for people around the world. However, to reach their full potential, MOOCs need to meet the accessibility needs of diverse learners, with and without disabilities. In the literature review, we have found some published research on accessibility evaluations of MOOCs content and platforms, but we have not f...

In recent years there has been considerable interest in how many learners complete MOOCs, and what factors during usage can predict completion. Others, however, have argued that many learners never intend to complete MOOCs, and take MOOCs for other reasons. There has been qualitative research into why learners take MOOCs, but the link between learner goals and completion has not been fully esta...

This paper puts forward the methods on MOOCs knowledge organization and discovery, adopts the method of Formal Concept Analysis, uses concept lattice as the support tool, and selects the data from “Coursera” to cluster the courses and mine the inner knowledge association among courses, so as to discover the connotative knowledge correlation among MOOCs on the same topic and the structure charac...