The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has expanded significantly in recent years. With the widespread of MOOC, the opportunity to study the fascinating courses for free has attracted numerous people of diverse educational backgrounds all over the world. In the big data era, a key research topic for MOOC is how to mine the needed courses in the massive course databases in cloud for each individu...

Since 2012, the vision of MOOCs in universities has been evolving rapidly. Universities that have decided to place a serious bet for including this kind of courses in their portfolio have involved a diverse set of staff roles within the institution. In most cases, with the exception of fully dedicated staff members hired for the sole purpose of MOOC development, MOOC related tasks are assigned ...

In the context of a Language Massive Open Online Course (LMOOC), teacher interventions have to be designed into the course, since personalized teacher feedback actions are impossible due to the large number of participants. Learner autonomy, peer-feedback and task design are crucial in this course design. This paper presents a study on the task design effect on participants of a tandem MOOC (En...

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 purpose of this study is to examine the faculty members’ tendency conduct a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and factors affecting these tendencies. In study, sectional survey model, quantitative research method, was used. group comprised 122 members working at major state university in Turkey selected by using random stratified sampling method. During process, were informed about MOOCs, d...

In 2015, 35 million learners participated online in 4,200 MOOCs organised by over 500 universities. Learning designers orchestrate MOOC content to engage learners at scale and retain interest by carefully mixing videos, lectures, readings, quizzes, and discussions. Universally, far fewer people actually participate in MOOCs than originally sign up with a steady attrition as courses progress. St...

Accessibility has emerged as a fundamental characteristic in the approach and exertion of higher education recently as has its capability to introduce creativity in teaching and learning practices. The emergence of the Internet along with the potentials it offers to allow the publication and distribution of resources, the astonishing evolution in online educational content, and the introduction...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to explore learners' perceptions of using virtual patients in a behavioral medicine Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) and thereby describe innovative ways of disseminating knowledge in health-related areas. METHODS A 5-week MOOC on behavioral medicine was hosted on the edX platform. The authors developed two branched virtual patients consisting of vid...

If you have not heard of the word MOOC, it refers toMassiveOpenOnlineCourses, and their appeal has raised the interest of most tertiary institutions. MOOCshave rapidly become “the new black” for online learning [1]. The first course emerged in 2008 from the University of Manitoba (http://cck11.mooc.ca/),and the termMOOCwas coined at that time by Dave Cornier (http://davecormier.com/edblog/2008/...

Los modelos híbridos y la educación online son cada vez más frecuentes en el contexto universitario, encontrando los MOOC´s un recurso con potencial para desarrollo de procesos formativos trabajar contenidos académicos. Situando interés las publicaciones realizadas sobre superior por investigadores filiación instituciones españolas, este estudio pretende analizar bibliométricamente producción c...