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Large scale analytics of global and regional MOOC providers: differences in learners’ demographics, preferences, and perceptions

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dc.contributor.authorStaubitz, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorJenner, Matt
dc.contributor.authorHalawa, Sherif
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Jiayin
dc.contributor.authorDespujol, Ignacio
dc.contributor.authorMaldonado-Mahauad, Jorge
dc.contributor.authorMontoro, German
dc.contributor.authorPeffer, Melanie
dc.contributor.authorRohloff, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorLane, Jenny
dc.contributor.authorTurro, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorLi, Xitong
dc.contributor.authorPérez-Sanagustín, Mar
dc.contributor.authorReich, Justin
dc.contributor.authorRuipérez Valiente, José Antonio
dc.contributor.departmentIngeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T07:59:24Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T07:59:24Z
dc.date.issued2022-04
dc.description© 2022 The Authors. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This document is the Published Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Computers & Education. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104426
dc.description.abstractMassive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) remarkably attracted global media attention, but the spotlight has been concentrated on a handful of English-language providers. While Coursera, edX, Udacity, and FutureLearn received most of the attention and scrutiny, an entirely new ecosystem of local MOOC providers was growing in parallel. This ecosystem is harder to study than the major players: they are spread around the world, have less staff devoted to maintaining research data, and operate in multiple languages with university and corporate regional partners. To better understand how online learning opportunities are expanding through this regional MOOC ecosystem, we created a research partnership among 15 different MOOC providers from nine countries. We gathered data from over eight million learners in six thousand MOOCs, and we conducted a large-scale survey with more than 10 thousand participants. From our analysis, we argue that these regional providers may be better positioned to meet the goals of expanding access to higher education in their regions than the better-known global providers. To make this claim we highlight three trends: first, regional providers attract a larger local population with more inclusive demographic profiles; second, students predominantly choose their courses based on topical interest, and regional providers do a better job at catering to those needs; and third, many students feel more at ease learning from institutions they already know and have references from. Our work raises the importance of local education in the global MOOC ecosystem, while calling for additional research and conversations across the diversity of MOOC providers.es
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dc.identifier.citationComputers & Education, 2022, Vol. 180 : 104426
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104426
dc.identifier.issnPrint: 0360-1315
dc.identifier.issnElectronic: 1873-782X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/148781
dc.languageenges
dc.publisherElsevieres
dc.relationWe would like to thank support from the MIT-SPAIN program sponsored by “la Caixa” Foundation SEED FUND. José A. Ruipérez-Valiente acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Juan de la Cierva Incorporación program (IJC2020-044852-I). Xitong Li acknowledges funding support from the French National Research Agency (ANR) [Grants ANR AAPG iMOOC-18-CE28-0020-01 and Investissements d’Avenir LabEx Ecodec Grant ANR-11-LABX-0047].es
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dc.relation.requireshttps://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MBWDXes
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dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional*
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dc.subjectLearning analyticses
dc.subjectEducational data mininges
dc.subjectMassive open online courseses
dc.subjectLarge scale analysises
dc.subjectCultural factorses
dc.subjectEquityes
dc.subjectDistance learninges
dc.titleLarge scale analytics of global and regional MOOC providers: differences in learners’ demographics, preferences, and perceptionses
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