The key aspects for MOOC design: foreign and domestic experience

DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2022_4_183

Olga A. Ivanova (Kabanova)

Tetiana N. Bokova

Abstract. Massive open online courses have been gaining their popularity rapidly in the 21st century. Along with beneficial opportunities MOOCs have some drawbacks. The current paper focuses on the experience gained in relation to this issue and attempts to elicit the main aspects of an efficient MOOC design. In order to answer the problematic question raised in the paper there were used such methods as comparative analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, the study of advanced experience. Due to the chosen methods, the key aspects and steps for MOOC design were structured in a table. The researchers have described some of the challenges MOOC creators faced while launching their courses and the authors of the current work list possible solutions to the arising problems on the stage of MOOC design. The paper might interest scholars who study online courses and open education opportunities, MOOC creators as well as their providers.

Keywords: MOOC, online course, MOOC design.

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