Challenges of teaching in massive open online course

Abstract

MOOC or Massive Open Online Course had gathered considerable interest as a new approach towards leveraging technology in higher education. It can be identified as a disruptive innovation in e-learning and MOOC research also had grown rapidly in terms of peer-reviewed studies over this few years. But until now, majority of MOOC based studies focuses on the learner's perspectives. Surprisingly, there were limited studies towards MOOC instructor who plays important role in MOOC success. One of the essential aspects that need to be reviewed are the recent challenges faced by the instructor. Challenges are important because it is closely related to the cost of teaching MOOC. Based from the previous studies, they are not focuses exclusively on challenges faced by instructor. It mostly based on instructor's overall experiences and also as secondary consideration behind learner's perspectives. Besides that, they do not provide a comprehensive list of recent challenges that are vital towards understanding instructor's problems in teaching MOOC. This study addressed these issues by investigating the literature on recent challenges faced by instructors in teaching MOOC. It is accomplished by conducting a systematic literature review on the recent literature from 2015 to 2018. 30 MOOC instructor perspectives studies were found where 12 studies are selected as primary studies. The findings offer current statistics of studies that provide recent challenges faced by instructors. 35 recent challenges had been identified we categorize them to 6 main themes of challenges.