An Overview of the World of MOOCs
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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are one of the most prominent trends in higher education in recent years. The term ‘MOOCs’ represents open access, global, free, video-based instructional content, videos, problem sets and forums released through an online platform to high volume participants aiming to take a course or to be educated. With time and place flexibility, MOOCs gathers scholars and ‘like-minded fellow learners around the globe’. Although it has a great prominence in its implementation, there is a lack of research studies and critical papers examining its current situation around the world. For this aim, beginning with the definition and a brief history of MOOCs, this paper examines it from various dimensions: pedagogical and technological implementations around the world and its research focus. Therefore, a literature review on MOOCs characteristics, timeline of its development and a blend of practical issues with the experiences of well-known MOOCs providers are presented.
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In the past few years, the popularity of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCS) has grown exponentially with the emergence of platforms like Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, LinkedIn Learning and edX.
“In the past few years, the popularity of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCS) has grown exponentially with the emergence of platforms like Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, LinkedIn Learning and edX [5, 16, 28].”
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- Siemens, G. (2013, November 6). MOOCs: how did we get here? [Power point slides]. Society for Learning Analytics Research. Presentation from the 10th Annual Open Education Conference. Retrieved from http://fr.slideshare.net/gsiemens/open-education-2013
- Authors
- Baturay, M. H.
- Affiliations
- Ipek University (TR)
- Corresponding author
- Baturay, Meltem Huri
- ORCID
- Baturay, Meltem Huri
- Venue
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-02
- Volume
- 174
- Pages
- 427-433
- ISSN
- 1877-0428 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2046149904
- Cited by
- 310
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 10.73
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Online Learning and Analytics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Education and E-Learning
- Social Sciences › Education › Online and Blended Learning
- Keywords
- massive open online courses, MOOCs, online learning, open access education, MOOC providers, MOOC pedagogy
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