REFLECTIONS ON MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCS) DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A BIBLIOMETRIC MAPPING ANALYSIS

Authors : Ahmed TLILI, Fahriye ALTINAY, Zehra ALTINAY, Cengiz Hakan AYDIN, Ronghuai HUANG, Ramesh SHARMA

Pages : 1-17

Doi:10.17718/tojde.1137107

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Publication Date : 2022-07-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Massive Open Online Courses insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(MOOCs); have been around for some time, but several studies highlighted different issues associated with them, including quality. The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed their second blooming, where MOOCs have seen a surge in enrollments since March 2020. This study intended to explore how this enrollment reflected on the research studies included in scientific publications, indexed by Web of Science. Specifically, the bibliometric mapping analyses of 108 studies have revealed an ongoing trend in the countries contributing to the MOOCs research, namely USA, China, UK and Spain. Additionally, MOOCs research coming from US, UK and other western countries was decreasing before the pandemic and showed a continuous dramatic reduction also during the COVID-19 pandemic. Growing attention in MOOCs research among less represented countries was also observed. Besides, most of the topics focused on by MOOCs research during the pandemic were mainly related to education and engineering.
Keywords : Bibliometric mapping analysis, Covid 19 pandemic, Massive Open Online Courses MOOCs, research, learning resources