Customer-Oriented Aggregators of Massive Open Online Courses: Opportunities and Prospects

In recent years, the number of online courses known as massive open online courses (MOOC) has increased significantly. Such courses are available on online providers’ sites, such as edX and Coursera. As a result, there is a notable reduction of clarity in terms of various course offerings, and this causes a need to change the MOOC description schemes to help inform potential applicants. The article is aimed at identifying the capabilities of customer-oriented MOOC aggregators and the prospects for their further improvement. The article presents approaches to the concept of customer focus, based on which the definition of a customer-oriented aggregator is formulated. The article analyses course descriptions used by MOOC providers and aggregators for their potential students. Based on this analysis, the authors develop a set of categories describing MOOC, used for the creation of a new MOOC description according to the customer-oriented criteria. The authors conclude that the optimal descriptive MOOC scheme on the MOOC aggregator should satisfy both the academic environment and the customer-oriented criteria that correspond to students’ interests when choosing a MOOC. © 2021

Authors
Galizina E.G.1, 2 , Feoktistova A.B.3 , Makushkin S.A.4 , Korotaeva I.E.5 , Kartseva E.Y. 6 , Udaltsova N.7
Journal
Webology
Publisher
Webology Center
Number of issue
Special Issue
Language
English
Pages
420-435
Status
Published
Link
External link
DOI
10.14704/WEB/V18SI05/WEB18238
Volume
18
Year
2021
Organizations
  • 1 Moscow State Institute of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism named by U.A. Senkevitch, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 2 Russian University of Transport, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 3 K.G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (The First Cossack University), Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 4 Russian State Social University, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 5 Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 6 Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 7 Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation
Keywords
Course Description; Customer Focus; MOOC; MOOC Aggregator; MOOC Provider
Date of creation
16.12.2021
Date of change
16.12.2021
Short link
https://repository.rudn.ru/en/records/article/record/76863/
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