MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses, have attracted millions of users around the world and it has a promise to be a very important part of future education. However, there is little research on users’ adoption of MOOCs. This paper aims to improve the understanding of users’ behavior intention to use MOOCs. The proposed research model is an extension of technology acceptance mode...

In this work, we explain the underlying interaction mechanisms which govern students’ influence on each other in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Specifically, we outline different ways in which students can be negatively exposed to their peers on MOOC forums and discuss a simple formulation of learning network diffusion, which formalizes the essence of how such an influence spreads and can...

In recent years, peer assessment has established itself as one of the most promising methods of assessment in open learning environments typically in massive open online courses (MOOCs). However, researchers are still working on ways to address a number of challenges in peer assessment. In this paper, we propose some solutions from the field of learning analytics which have the potential to pro...

Students in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) interact with each other and the course staff through online discussion forums. While discussion forums play a central role in MOOCs, they also pose a challenge for instructors. The large number of student posts makes it difficult for instructors to know where to intervene to answer questions, resolve issues, and provide feedback. In this work, we...

MOOCs have brought a revolution to education. However, their impact is mainly benefiting people with Higher Education degrees. The lack of support and personalized advice in MOOCs is causing that many of the learners that have not developed work habits and selflearning skills give them up at the first obstacle, and do not see MOOCs as an alternative for their education and training. MyLearningM...

MOOCs are increasing their role in vocational training in the American market, also as a result of the synergy between large universities and leading corporate players in the accreditation of online courses. In Europe, most universities seem to be caught in between two competing strategies. Either they produce a limited number of MOOCs, distributed through the big American providers and mainly ...

The revolutionary potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been met with much skepticism, particularly in terms of the quality of learning offered. Believing that a focus on learning is more important than a focus on course completion rates, this position paper presents a pedagogical assessment of MOOCs using Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate...

Video is a content delivery form used for delivering lecture content in Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). While institutions plan to launch MOOC on their own platform or adapt an existing one, there is a need to specify the features required for video lecture in MOOC. In this paper, we present a checklist of features for video lecture incorporated in MOOC from the learner‟s perspective. The us...

Premised upon the observation that MOOC and crowdsourcing phenomena share several important characteristics, including IT mediation, large-scale human participation, and varying levels of openness to participants, this work systematizes a comparison of MOOC and crowdsourcing phenomena along these salient dimensions. In doing so, we learn that both domains share further common traits, including ...

Prior studies on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) suggest that there is a significant decrease in student participation after one week of instruction [8]. This paper uses a combination of students’ Week 1 assignment performance and social interaction within the MOOC to predict their final performance in the course. The study also examines the role external incentives in final MOOC performanc...