作者
Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli, Stefania Cucchiara, Donatella Persico
发表日期
2015/5
来源
British Journal of Educational Technology
卷号
46
期号
3
页码范围
488-509
简介
This paper explores the methodological approaches most commonly adopted in the scholarly literature on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), published during the period January 2008–May 2014. In order to identify trends, gaps and criticalities related to the methodological approaches of this emerging field of research, we analysed 60 papers selected across four relevant scientific databases plus one journal in the sector of e‐learning that published a special issue on this topic. The emerging picture is that of a research field in its infancy, heavily relying on theoretical research and case studies, which is just beginning to identify suitable methods to deal with large cohorts of learners, very large amounts of data and new ways of learning. The state‐of‐the‐art is also quite fragmentary, due to the different epistemological and ontological conceptions of the authors of the papers about the nature of the issues faced …
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JE Raffaghelli, S Cucchiara, D Persico - British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015