MOOC in Higher Education: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

This study explains all the factors related to the definition and current research trends on how MOOCs can improve education. This study aims to highlight collaboration between authors, and countries in the field, to identify authors,; to find out the research topics that researchers have been working on in recent years. Bibliometric and theoretical analysis based on the Google Scholar database from 2018-2022 was used. Search results found 710 articles with the keyword "Open Online Course". The data obtained then displays a total of 1435 authors who wrote at least 1 article, comprehensively in 82 clusters. Field terms are taken based on the title and abstract, while the method used to calculate the dataset is full counting. Co-occurrence analysis revealed that there were 2162 keywords which were then grouped into 204 clusters or groups where there were some occurrences that were more prominent than others. Based on the results of the VOS Viewer analysis, 11 terms were chosen because they have a large occurrence value and a high level of relevance. Several keywords in publications published in 2022 include "digital learning platform", "higher technology", "behavioral tools", and "literacy"