Abstract Although MOOCs platforms offer a unique way to provide information for large cohort of participants, only small percentage participants complete MOOCs. The high number dropouts in is key challenge, and the literature suggests that it can be affected by participants' motivation. However, not known how what extent motivation influences participants’ dropout There need an overview role MO...

Users and learners nowadays are seeking their education on online platforms such as Open edX, Udemy, Udacity, Coursera. However, faced with cumbersome tasks various challenges to search for the required courses matching individual goals, knowledge, interest. With huge amount of data material available over internet MOOCs, users often face difficulty making right decision choose course that perf...

Objectives: Higher education learners paid attention to MOOCs in their relevant fields enhance skills and knowledge. The purpose of the current study is find MOOCs’ disruptive technological dimensions learners’ attitudes, usage behavior, satisfaction. Methodology: adopted a descriptive research design, it cross-sectional study, with 384 included questionnaire survey during months June August 20...

Video lectures in massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide an opportunity to not only deliver instructional content but also engage learners. While there are many different styles of video lectures, it is clear how affect learner engagement. This study analysed and critiqued typologies classified MOOC on a speaker-centric media-centric spectrum. A total 1372 survey responses were used for da...

While data from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offers the potential to gain new insights into the ways in which online communities can contribute to student learning, much of the richness of the data trace is still yet to be mined. In particular, very little work has attempted fine-grained content analyses of the student interactions in MOOCs. Survey research indicates the importance of st...

Predictive models of student success in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a critical component of effective content personalization and adaptive interventions. In this article we review the state of the art in predictive models of student success in MOOCs and present a dual categorization of MOOC research according to both predictors (features) and prediction (outcomes). We critically sur...

The Perspectives Workshop on “Massively Open Online Courses, Current State and Perspectives” took place at Schloss Dagstuhl on March 10–13, 2014. Twenty-three leading researchers and practitioners from informatics and pedagogical sciences presented and discussed current experiences and future directions, challenges, and visions for the influence of MOOCs on university teaching and learning. The...

Internet worldwide adoption has influenced several trends in human behavior, and social phenomena represented through the ever-increasing popularity of social networks have created new conversational arenas. New media-sharing technologies have allowed users to consume information from countless sources, including media that have been remixed and co-created by a crowd. Teachers' roles are evolvi...