“ The Current Status of Learning Analytics Research for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) ”

Abstract

In 2012, the world's top universities started to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The trend became rapidly spread as a global online education platform, and it immediately provoked social interests as research theme. While researches were mostly published as practice reports and discussion papers to look out for future possibilities at the beginning, empirical research has progressed in recent years, by incorporating Learning Analytics. In this article, by reviewing previous studies on MOOC with Learning Analytics, we examined the research findings and discussed issues and challenges for future research.