Talk given by Katy Jordan, University of Lancaster (UK) and Fereshte Goshtasbpour, The Open University (UK) at the tenth anniversary meeting of the FutureLearn Academic Network (FLAN) held at the University of Leeds / online on 23 October 2023.

In a New York Times article, Pappano (2012) declared 2012 as ‘the year of the MOOC’. It was a year which saw a surge in interest in this new, open form of online higher education. While the initial hype around Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) subsided and their form has changed significantly from the first large-scale courses, more learners than ever are registered with the platforms, which have attracted substantial levels of investment. In this presentation, we report the findings from a paper that brought together articles published about MOOCs in the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) over the past ten years. First, the presentation provides an overview of major events and trends in relation to MOOCs over the past ten years. Then it takes a closer look at the 25 papers published in JIME arranged in relation to four main themes, including: situating MOOCs; learning design and roles; MOOCs and languages; and accessibility and inclusion.

Jordan, K. and Goshtasbpour, F., 2022. JIME Virtual Special Collection – 2012 to 2022: The Decade of the MOOC. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2022(1), p.1.DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.757

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