Quality Research in MOOCs

DOI

10.2991/icsma-16.2016.127How to use a DOI?

Keywords

MOOCs, Online learning systems, Instructional Quality

Abstract

This article focuses on a review of quality research in MOOCs from science citation index expanded (SCI-EXPANED) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) database on web of science, concerning the rapid growth of interest in understanding MOOCs. Research results indicate that (1) the number of citations on these topics mainly distributes in recent 4 years, reaching climax of 24 in 2015; (2) the main research territory is SPAIN, accounting for 41.667%, then followed by GERGMAN of 16.667% ; (3) the year of published articles distributed between 2013 and 2016; (4) in the view of organizations, both RHEIN WESTFAL TH AACHEN and UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE have the same record count of 2, accounting for 16.667% respectively; (5) 58.333% of the research focused in education educational research, then 41.667% in computer science; (6) The number of article is of the same as that of proceedings paper, accounting for 50%. Overall, the related research topics can be classified into four aspects: classification of MOOCs Criteria, design quality, instructional quality and strategies for enhancing quality.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Bing Wu
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Sensors, Mechatronics and Automation (ICSMA 2016)
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