Research on MOOCs in Major Referred Journals

Babori, Abdelghani; Zaid, Abdelkarim; Fassi, Hicham Fihri

doi:10.19173/irrodl.v20i4.4385

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“…From these different perspectives, we have identified three common features of digital culture: its references characterized by the dominant digital uses and practices among young people and in our case prospective teachers, the products that result from these practices and uses, in terms of content, resources produced, etc., and the communication or exchanges through the digital tools used [17].…”

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Characterizing the Digital Culture of Prospective Primary School Teachers

Ou-sekou

Kaddari

Zaid

2021

Education Research International

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This article aims at characterizing the digital culture of prospective Moroccan primary school teachers during their training. The study was conducted as a survey on a sample of prospective primary school teachers from Morocco. A descriptive frequency analysis was performed using SPSS. The results show that this digital culture is rooted more considerably in their personal use of different technological tools or resources. The article analyzes the resources of digital culture through the objectives of digital practices of prospective teachers and the motivations underlying their choice of a specific digital tool and practice. The digital practices of prospective teachers are marked by frequent use of social networks and a low tendency to make use of institutional platforms and their trainers’ blogs. The analysis highlights the nature of the environments, services, and digital resources manipulated by prospective teachers during their training. It also sheds light on the role of this digital culture in the content preparation activities of these potential teachers, as well as the resources produced by them and by their trainers. The preparation of pedagogical content often makes use of social network tools, while educational tools are in average use. Finally, the results show that these exchanges are dominated by WhatsApp, Google Drive, and e-mail; however, the use of the WhatsApp application is more prevalent when interacting with trainers.

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Characterizing the Digital Culture of Prospective Primary School Teachers

Ou-sekou

Kaddari

Zaid

2021

Education Research International

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“…Similarly, Snyder (2019) advocates on the use of literature review as a research methodology in business studies. Another scholar combined literature review approach and thematic content analysis to conduct research on role and place of content for massive open online courses (Babori et al, 2019). Therefore, this study uses integrative literature review methodology as well as content analysis to review studies in digital marketing and tourism relating to Africa with the main objective to explore digital marketing and tourism by focusing on opportunities for Africa, and specifically to examining social media marketing in relation to tourist arrivals.…”

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Digital marketing and tourism: opportunities for Africa

Mkwizu¹

2019

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore digital marketing and tourism with a focus on opportunities with a case study of Africa, motivated by developments in tourism particularly the increase in tourist arrivals and the growth of digital statistics in the digital era. Design/methodology/approach -Literature review as a research methodology was adopted in this study, and the integrative literature review was the method used as well as content analysis to review studies in digital marketing and tourism relating to Africa. Findings -This paper reveals that digital media, content and mobile advertising are among the trends in digital marketing and, thus, affords Africa the opportunity to market its attractions to tourists in this digital era. Research limitations/implications -Future studies can explore quantitative and qualitative methods to understand the phenomenon of digital marketing in relation to tourism. Practical implications -Other countries within Africa to adopt similar digital marketing such as digital media and creative content in order to manage the digitization of marketing activities in the tourism sector.Originality/value -This study explores digital marketing and tourism with a focus on opportunities for Africa as a case study by specifically examining social media marketing in relation to tourist arrivals using integrative literature review and content analysis methods.

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“…Their findings showed that most MOOC studies focused on addressing learners' completion, dropout rates, and retention. Babori et al (2019) examined the content of MOOC research in 65 peer-reviewed papers produced in five major educational technology research journals between 2012 and 2018. Their analysis revealed that these articles were mainly concerned with MOOCs' objectives, prerequisites required for participation in MOOCs, and types of learning scenarios.…”

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“…Some stakeholders have suggested that MOOCs may have a groundbreaking impact on higher education, potentially making traditional physical universities obsolete (Shirky, 2013). While acknowledging the potential of MOOCs, some educators have expressed concerns about the pedagogical models based on information transmission that have been widely applied in MOOCs (Albert et al, 2015;Babori et al, 2019;Veletsianos & Shepherdson, 2016;Zhu et al, 2018). Despite the polarized debate, the number of MOOC courses offered and students enrolled has continued to grow, which has aroused the interest of researchers.…”

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A Systematic Review of Questionnaire-Based Quantitative Research on MOOCs

Ming

Cui

Huang

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IRRODL

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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have attracted much interest from educational researchers and practitioners around the world. There has been an increase in empirical studies about MOOCs in recent years, most of which used questionnaire surveys and quantitative methods to collect and analyze data. This study explored the research topics and paradigms of questionnaire-based quantitative research on MOOCs by reviewing 126 articles available in the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) databases from January 2015 to August 2020. This comprehensive overview showed that: (a) the top three MOOC research topics were the factors influencing learners’ performance, dropout rates and continuance intention to use MOOCs, and assessing MOOCs; (b) for these three topics, many studies designed questionnaires by adding new factors or adjustments to extant theoretical models or survey instruments; and (c) most researchers used descriptive statistics to analyze data, followed by the structural equation model, and reliability and validity analysis. This study elaborated on the relationship of research topics and key factors in the research models by building factors-goals (F-G) graphs. Finally, we proposed some directions and recommendations for future research on MOOCs.

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Research on MOOCs in Major Referred Journals

Cited by 13 publications

References 88 publications

Characterizing the Digital Culture of Prospective Primary School Teachers

Characterizing the Digital Culture of Prospective Primary School Teachers

Digital marketing and tourism: opportunities for Africa

A Systematic Review of Questionnaire-Based Quantitative Research on MOOCs

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