Benefits of Massive Open Online Course Participation: Deductive Thematic Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Massive open online courses (MOOCs), as originally conceived, promised to provide educational access to anyone with an internet connection. However, the expansiveness of MOOC education has been found to be somewhat limited. Nonetheless, leading universities continue to offer MOOCs, including many in the health sciences, on a number of private platforms. Therefore, research on online education must include thorough understanding of the role of MOOCs. To date, studies on MOOC participants have focused mainly on learners' assessment of the course. It is known that MOOCs are not reaching the universal audiences that were predicted, and much knowledge has been gained about learners' perceptions of MOOCs. However, there is little scholarship on what learners themselves gain fr

SUBMITTER: Blum ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7381083 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature