The Landscape of Global MOOCs: An International Comparative Study

• In Event: 43.078 - MTCC Roundtable Session 16
  In Roundtable Session: 43.078-11 - Learning Online: Social Cognitive Theory, Students' Engagement, MOOCs, and Asynchronous Online Discussions

Abstract

MOOCs was expected to decrease the educational inequality, while it is still uncertain whether it is a channel for dialogue or just a one-way pipe from the academic core to the periphery. This paper uses MOOCs as object of study, and aims to find out if there is knowledge production gap between South and North by adopting data mining techniques. This study concentrates on the MOOCs supplying patterns in three levels, country level, institute level and discipline level. The analysis turns out that there is a huge gap between different division of countries in all kinds of sectors. Countries even in the same division of South and North have various MOOCs supplying patterns due to the diverse economic and educational conditions.

Authors

• Jie Fu

• Zhenzhong Huang, Tsinghua University