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

Matt Jenner
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Sherif Halawa
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Jiayin Zhang
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Melanie Peffer
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Jenny Lane
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Justin Reich
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Massive 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 Massive 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
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hal-03531074 , version 1 (18-01-2022)

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José A Ruipérez-Valiente, Thomas Staubitz, Matt Jenner, Sherif Halawa, Jiayin Zhang, et al.. Large scale analytics of global and regional MOOC providers: Differences in learners’ demographics, preferences, and perceptions. Computers and Education, 2022, 180, pp.104426. ⟨10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104426⟩. ⟨hal-03531074⟩
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