STAKEHOLDERS' VIEW ON MOOCS SUSTAINABILITY IN MALAYSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

The emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has revolutionized the global higher education due to policy innovation towards learning accessibility, heterogenous participation with low or zero cost imposed on end-users. In the context of Malaysian higher education, the Ministry of Higher Education has launched Malaysia MOOC, the first country in the world to implement government-initiated MOOCs for all public universities. The ministry allocates RM500 million for all public universities to offer the MOOC, under the 2016-2020 Eleventh Malaysia Plan. Nonetheless, there is yet study published specifically on MOOCs sustainability in Malaysian higher education. Hence, this paper aims to gauge MOOCs stakeholders’ view on MOOCs sustainability via interviews conducted with ten interviewees who are the primary stakeholders of the Malaysia MOOCs initiative. Four main factors, three constructs and nine elements for MOOCs sustainability in Malaysian higher education have been identified via synthesis of meta-analysis and stakeholders’ view. The findings of this research are hoped to be useful as future reference to policy makers, practitioners and researchers.

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