The Potential of Interdisciplinarity in MOOC Research: How do education and computer science intersect?

Kristine Lund; Bodong Chen; Sebastian Grauwin

doi:10.1145/3231644.3231661

The Potential of Interdisciplinarity in MOOC Research: How do education and computer science intersect?

Kristine Lund, Bodong Chen, Sebastian Grauwin

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Abstract

Given that both computer scientists and educational researchers publish on the topic of massive open online courses (MOOCs), the research community should analyze how these disciplines approach the same topic. In order to promote productive dialogue within the community, we report on a bibliometrics study of the growing MOOC literature and examine the potential interdisciplinarity of this research space. Drawing from 3,380 bibliographic items retrieved from Scopus, we conducted descriptive analyses on publication years, publication sources, disciplinary categories of publication sources, frequent keywords, leading authors, and cited references. We applied bibliographic coupling and network analysis to further investigate clusters of research topics in the MOOC literature. We found balanced representation of education and computer science within most topic clusters. However, integration could be further improved on, for example, by enhancing communication between the disciplines and broadening the scope of methods in specific studies.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450358866
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3231644.3231661
State	Published - Jun 26 2018
Event	5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018 - London, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 26 2018 → Jun 28 2018

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Name	Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018

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Other	5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	6/26/18 → 6/28/18

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National de la Recherche Scientifique and Ecole Normale SupÃl’rieure de Lyon through the Laboratoire de l’Education (UMS 3773), as well as Aslan (ANR-10-LABX-0081) of UniversitÃl’ de Lyon, for its financial support within the program Investissements d’Avenir (ANR-11-IDEX-0007) of the French government operated by the National Research Agency (ANR).

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© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery. All rights reserved.

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Bibliometrics
Interdisciplinary Research
MOOC
Online Learning

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Lund, K., Chen, B., & Grauwin, S. (2018). The Potential of Interdisciplinarity in MOOC Research: How do education and computer science intersect? In Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018 Article 56 (Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3231644.3231661

The Potential of Interdisciplinarity in MOOC Research: How do education and computer science intersect? / Lund, Kristine; Chen, Bodong; Grauwin, Sebastian.
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. 56 (Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018).

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Lund, K, Chen, B & Grauwin, S 2018, The Potential of Interdisciplinarity in MOOC Research: How do education and computer science intersect? in Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018., 56, Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018, London, United Kingdom, 6/26/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3231644.3231661

Lund K, Chen B, Grauwin S. The Potential of Interdisciplinarity in MOOC Research: How do education and computer science intersect? In Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2018. 56. (Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018). doi: 10.1145/3231644.3231661

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