The MOOC Phenomenon: Who Takes Massive Open Online Courses and Why?

By Gayle S. Christensen, A. Steinmetz, Brandon Alcorn, Amy Bennett, Deirdre Woods, E. Emanuel. 2013

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Is peer review an appropriate form of assessment in a MOOC? Student participation and performance in formative peer review (2017, background): “Overall, however, participants tend to be young, well-educated, employed and mainly from developed countries (Christensen et al. 2013).”
An e-Learning Theoretical Framework (2016, background): “As a matter of fact, according to an empirical study (Christensen et al., 2013) MOOC attracts mainly young, well-educated and employed people from developed countries.”
HarvardX and MITx: Two Years of Open Online Courses Fall 2012-Summer 2014 (2015, background): “Christensen et al. (2013) described results from 34,779 survey respondents from University of Pennsylvania MOOCs, a sample that comprised 8.5% of their target sample of video watchers and 4.3% of all registrants.”
Understanding the MOOCs continuance: The role of openness and reputation (2015, background): “Curiosity and job advancement, for example, are commonmotivating factors (Breslow et al., 2013; Christensen et al., 2013).”