Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to democratize education by providing learners with access to rich sources of information. However, evidence supporting this democratization across countries is limited. We explored the question of democratization by investigating whether females from different countries were more likely to enroll in and complete STEM MOOCs compared with ma...

BACKGROUND The completion rates for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) generally are low (5-10%) and have been reported to favour participants with higher (typically tertiary-level) education. Despite these factors, the flexible learning offered by a MOOC has the potential to provide an accessible educational environment for a broad spectrum of participants. In this regard, the Wicking Dementi...

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a new online education model that provides opportunities and challenges for the development reform of teaching in colleges universities. This paper first builds MOOC-based influencing factors blended learning adaptability. Through investigation research, it found six all have different ways degrees influence on Among them, motivation has direct significant i...

Physical activity is one of the key factors of ageing healthy and at the same time one of the key motivational challenges for the elderly. Supporting healthy ageing through physical fitness requires interventions that promote healthy levels of physical activity as part of the daily routine. Although wearable devices, such as activity trackers or smart wristbands, have been used by younger adopt...

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...

Zentraler Bestandteil der universitären Lehre bildet seit Jahrhunderten die Vorlesung: Einer redet, Hunderte hören zu. Ermöglicht durch schnelle Netze und multimediale Webportale bahnt sich seit etwa drei Jahren eine ernstzunehmende Alternative den Weg: der MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Hier wühlen sich Tausende von Teilnehmern nach eigener Zeiteinteilung durch interaktives Lehrmaterial, s...

A new approach for overcoming the language and culture barriers to participation in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is reported. It is hypothesised that the juxtaposition of English as the language of instruction, used for interacting with course materials, and one’s preferred language as the language of participation, used for interaction with peers and facilitators, is preferable to “Engl...

The purpose of this research is to highlight the factors influencing adoption MOOCs in Malaysian context. This qualitative study was designed using focus group discussions (FGs) with fifty postgraduate students from two Universities. thematic analysis revealed major themes, opportunities, and challenges. findings 12 sub-factors MOOCs, seven subfactors for opportunities MOOC, namely, improve hig...