Reflections on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Mapping Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Tlili, Ahmed; Altinay, Zehra; Aydin, Cengiz Hakan; Huang, Ronghuai; Sharma, Ramesh C.
Titel	Reflections on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Mapping Analysis
Quelle	In: Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 23 (2022) 3, S.1-17, Artikel 1 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tlili, Ahmed) ORCID (Altinay, Zehra) ORCID (Aydin, Cengiz Hakan) ORCID (Huang, Ronghuai) ORCID (Sharma, Ramesh C.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	MOOCs; COVID-19; Pandemics; Bibliometrics; Research; Online Courses; Geographic Location; Research Methodology; Foreign Countries; United States; Asia; Latin America; Europe; Middle East; Australia; Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bibliometrie; Forschung; Online course; Online-Kurs; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Ausland; USA; Asien; Lateinamerika; Europa; Vorderasien; Australien; Afrika
Abstract	Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been around for some time, but several studies highlighted different issues associated with them, including quality. The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed their second blooming, where MOOCs have seen a surge in enrollments since March 2020. This study intended to explore how this enrollment reflected on the research studies included in scientific publications, indexed by Web of Science. Specifically, the bibliometric mapping analyses of 108 studies have revealed an ongoing trend in the countries contributing to the MOOCs research, namely USA, China, UK and Spain. Additionally, MOOCs research coming from US, UK and other western countries was decreasing before the pandemic and showed a continuous dramatic reduction also during the COVID-19 pandemic. Growing attention in MOOCs research among less represented countries was also observed. Besides, most of the topics focused on by MOOCs research during the pandemic were mainly related to education and engineering. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01