INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES IN MOOCS

In 2011, Stanford University launched the online course entitled “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”. It was facilitated by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig. Enrollment quickly reached 160,000 students. Since then the term, MOOC, Massive Open Online Course, has become widely known internationally. Together with these online courses, we also see the establishment of various MOOC platforms such as Coursera, edX, Udacity and Udemy. Because of the massive student enrolment, course providers have devised teaching approaches and strategies for MOOCs to engage students in learning. The purpose of this paper is to examine some MOOC teaching approaches or strategies which can be adopted in e-learning implementation. In addition, the author examines some challenging issues facing MOOCs.