Background. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are an emerging trend in online learning. However, their technology is not yet completely adjusted to the needs of healthcare education. Integration of Virtual Patients within MOOCs to increase interactivity and foster clinical reasoning skills training, has been discussed in the past, but not verified by a practical implementation. Objective. To ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have a remarkable ability to expand access to a large scale of participants worldwide, beyond the formality of the higher education systems. MOOCs support participants to be actively involved in collaborative learning and construct their own learning experience in a variety of domains. However, one of the biggest challenges facing MOOCs is how to assess the l...

This policy paper addresses organizational areas for improvement when universities start producing MOOCs. These areas surface in the intersection between educational practice and MOOC policies, and they will be discussed in three parts in the paper. First, we describe the organizational context in which this paper is based. Second, we outline four organizational challenges that can shape the co...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained tremendous popularity in the last few years. Thanks to MOOCs, millions of learners from all over the world have taken thousands of high-quality courses for free. Putting together an excellent MOOC ecosystem is a multidisciplinary endeavour that requires contributions from many different fields. Artificial intelligence (AI) and data mining (DM) are...

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a course designed for unlimited participation and can be accessed by anyone through the Web. As a promising education form, it has attracted lots of attentions from institutions, learners and employers [68]. However, the effectiveness and fairness of MOOC have been encroaching by academic dishonesty. Academic dishonesty is defined as using dishonest means to...

Educational technology has obtained great importance over the last fifteen years. At present, the umbrella of educational technology incorporates multitudes of engaging online environments and fields. Learning analytics and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are two of the most relevant emerging topics in this domain. Since they are open to everyone at no cost, MOOCs excel in attracting numero...

Digital news media discourse on MOOCs has been pervasive in educational publications over recent years, and has often focused on debates over the disruptive potential of MOOCs at one extreme, and their survival at the other. Whether such articles reflect the concerns of academics and other internal university stakeholders is difficult to ascertain. This paper aims to determine the main concerns...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) require students’ motivation either intrinsically or extrinsically to complete any of its courses. Even though MOOCs enjoy great popularity and bring many benefits to the educational community, some concerns arise with MOOC advancement. In fact, MOOCs are affected by low completion rate and face issues with respect to interactivity and student engagement alon...

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...

Web-based learning is now offered in multiple forms. One of these is the phenomenon of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Several approaches in Learning Analytics (LA) attempt to analyze and explain students learning patterns in MOOCs. In addition to traditional data mining techniques, online surveys constitute another way used in LA for analyzing students’ learning habits in MOOCs. However, ...