Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide increasing opportunities for skills acquisition. Their widespread use can be justified by a number of critical motivating factors such as the possibility of free courses, the flexibility of the learning process as well as the reputation of some of the world most prestigious universities offering these courses. This level of popularity has created the ...

The widespread discussion about the potential of MOOCs has stimulated universities and enterprises to develop courses using private MOOC providers and mainly open MOOC platforms on their own technological infrastructure. Nevertheless, the design of attractive courses for large scale e-learning and practical guidelines to design for learning in MOOCs remain a challenge. In this paper, firstly, w...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) describe platforms where users with completely different backgrounds subscribe to various courses on offer. MOOC forums and discussion boards offer learners a medium to communicate with each other and maximize their learning outcomes. However, oftentimes learners are hesitant to approach each other for different reasons (being shy, don’t know the right match,...

Massive Open Online Courses have experienced a fast cycle of hype and disappointment. In November 2012, the New York Times proclaimed 2012 to be the year of the MOOC. The excitement was based on the promise that the world can now have access to a wide variety of courses from the best universities. However, on December 12, 2013, a Washington Post article headline was “Are MOOCs already over?”. T...

In a technology-fueled world, coding is an essential skill for young people. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), which are free online courses available to a very large number of people, are an effective and increasingly popular option for teaching scientific topics to a worldwide audience. However, despite the large number of MOOCs available on computer science, there is a scarcity of coding-...

The Covid-19 pandemic restricted the people around world's boundaries. Therefore, online learning's importance increased in current era, an essential topic for research. Students are actively using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) while at their homes during pandemic. This research investigates Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Technology model (UTAUT) quality factors to predict users per...

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...

Previous studies about engagement in MOOCs has focused primarily on behavioral engagement and less attention has been paid to cognitive engagement. This may lead to incomplete or even incorrect understandings about students experience and learning in MOOCs. In this study, we use number of lectures watched as a proxy for behavioral engagement and number of pauses in lectures watched as a proxy f...