MOOCs: A systematic study of the published literature 2008-2012

TR Liyanagunawardena, AA Adams… - International review of …, 2013 - erudit.org
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a recent addition to the range of online learning
options. Since 2008, MOOCs have been run by a variety of public and elite universities …

Students' and instructors' use of massive open online courses (MOOCs): Motivations and challenges

KF Hew, WS Cheung - Educational research review, 2014 - Elsevier
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are among the latest e-learning initiative to attain
widespread popularity among many universities. In this paper, a review of the current …

Analysis of user satisfaction with online education platforms in China during the COVID-19 pandemic

T Chen, L Peng, X Yin, J Rong, J Yang, G Cong - Healthcare, 2020 - mdpi.com
The outbreak of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in various countries at the end of
last year has transferred traditional face-to-face teaching to online education platforms …

Connectivism: A knowledge learning theory for the digital age?

JGS Goldie - Medical teacher, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The emergence of the internet, particularly Web 2.0 has provided access to the
views and opinions of a wide range of individuals opening up opportunities for new forms of …

Three generations of distance education pedagogy

T Anderson, J Dron - International Review of Research in Open and …, 2011 - erudit.org
This paper defines and examines three generations of distance education pedagogy. Unlike
earlier classifications of distance education based on the technology used, this analysis …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on user experience with online education platforms in China

T Chen, L Peng, B **g, C Wu, J Yang, G Cong - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
During the COVID-19 pandemic, social education has shifted from face to face to online in
order to avoid large gatherings and crowds for blocking the transmission of the virus. To …

Out of the laboratory and into the classroom: the future of artificial intelligence in education

D Schiff - AI & society, 2021 - Springer
Like previous educational technologies, artificial intelligence in education (AIEd) threatens
to disrupt the status quo, with proponents highlighting the potential for efficiency and …

Instructional quality of massive open online courses (MOOCs)

A Margaryan, M Bianco, A Littlejohn - Computers & Education, 2015 - Elsevier
We present an analysis of instructional design quality of 76 randomly selected Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The quality of MOOCs was determined from first principles …

Promoting engagement in online courses: What strategies can we learn from three highly rated MOOCS

KF Hew - British Journal of Educational Technology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although past research has sought to identify the factors of student engagement in
traditional online courses, two questions remained largely unanswered with regard to M …

Dropout rates of massive open online courses: behavioural patterns

DFO Onah, J Sinclair, R Boyatt - EDULEARN14 proceedings, 2014 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have received wide publicity and many institutions
have invested considerable effort in develo**, promoting and delivering such courses …