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This paper looks at the increasing popularity of massive open and online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources (OERs) offered in Singapore. Despite being a relatively new phenomenon, the Singapore government has collaborated with…

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The Web has enabled one of the most visible recent developments in education---the deployment of massive open online courses. With their global reach and often staggering enrollments, MOOCs have the potential to become a major new mechanism…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Ashton Anderson , Daniel Huttenlocher , Jon Kleinberg , Jure Leskovec

Massive Open Online Courseware (MOOCs) appeared in 2008 and grew considerably in the past decade, now reaching millions of students and professionals all over the world. MOOCs do not replace other educational forms. Instead, they complement…

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The impact of MOOC courses in the processes of distance learning has been extremely important from the very beginning. They offer an innovative model of massive teaching, which exploits in a paradigmatic manner the potential and relevance…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Jessica Perez-Parras , Jose Gomez-Galan

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer a new scalable paradigm for e-learning by providing students with global exposure and opportunities for connecting and interacting with millions of people all around the world. Very often, students…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Tanmay Sinha

Educational technology has obtained great importance over the last fifteen years. At present, the umbrella of educational technology incorporates multitudes of engaging online environments and fields. Learning analytics and Massive Open…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Mohammad Khalil

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained tremendous popularity in the last few years. Thanks to MOOCs, millions of learners from all over the world have taken thousands of high-quality courses for free. Putting together an excellent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Simon Fauvel , Han Yu

One of the most important areas of todays computer technology is Cloud Computing. Benefits of Cloud Computing in various areas cannot be ignored. One field affected by the opportunities provided by Cloud Computing is education. MOOC emerged…

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the road that led to a revolution and a new era of learning environments. Educational institutions have come under pressure to adopt new models that assure openness in their education distribution.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Mohammad Khalil , Martin Ebner

Computer science (CS) is increasingly becoming part of the curricula of K-12 education in different countries. However, there are few K-12 CS teachers, and tools to offer K-12 CS education are often limited. Massive Open Online Courses…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-03 L. M. van der Lubbe , S. P van Borkulo , J. T. Jeuring

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are seen as a next step in distance online learning. In the MOOC vision, large numbers of students can access the course content over the Internet and complete courses at their own pace while interacting…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Markus Harju , Teemu Leppänen , Ilkka Virtanen

The study explores whether the use of Twitter in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) promotes the interaction among learners. The social network analysis shows that instructors still play a very central role in the social media…

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together a global crowd of thousands of learners for several weeks or months. In theory, the openness and scale of MOOCs can promote iterative dialogue that facilitates group cognition and knowledge…

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer unprecedented opportunities to learn at scale. Within a few years, the phenomenon of crowd-based learning has gained enormous popularity with millions of learners across the globe participating in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Rebecca Eynon , Isis Hjorth , Taha Yasseri , Nabeel Gillani

Tertiary education is one of the most important industries in Australia and a crucial source of income for its universities. Therefore, any new form of tertiary education that may have impact on Australian universities should be closely…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Georg Peters , Doreen Sacker , Jan Seruga

Learning Analytics is an emerging field in the vast areas of Educational Technology and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). It provides tools and techniques that offer researchers the ability to analyze, study, and benchmark institutions,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Mohammad Khalil , Behnam Taraghi , Martin Ebner

The revolution of internet technology and its usage have led a significant increase in the number of online transactions and electronic data transfer, parallely increased the number of cybercrime incidents around the world. Steady economic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Rajasekar Ramalingam , Shimaz Khan , Shameer Mohammed

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to democratize education by providing learners with access to rich sources of information. However, evidence supporting this democratization across countries is limited. We explored the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Suhang Jiang , Katerina Schenke , Jacquelynne Sue Eccles , Di Xu , Mark Warschauer

Despite artificial intelligence (AI) having transformed major aspects of our society, less than a fraction of its potential has been explored, let alone deployed, for education. AI-powered learning can provide millions of learners with a…

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