“…The fast-developing context of research on LA and MOOCs shows a variety of emerging themes (e.g., Peña-Ayala, 2018;Veletsianos & Shepherdson, 2016) such as MOOC design (Watson et al, 2016), student subpopulations (Kizilcec, Piech, & Schneider, 2013), or student motivation (Koller, Ng, Chuong, & Zhenghao, 2013). However, despite existing research on MOOC design (Watson et al, 2016), it appears that many MOOCs are developed without applying basic instructional design principles (Margaryan, Bianco, & Littlejohn, 2015) as formulated by Reigeluth (2016), for instance.…”