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Specifically, in order for MOOCs to be successful in Malaysia, MOOCs need to support student needs and employ strong evidence-based practices when engaging and teaching large numbers of students. While MOOCs are relatively young, as arguably the first MOOC was offered by Stephen Downes and George Siemens in 2008 with about 2,300 students, MOOCs have deep roots in the open education movement. As with other Global South MOOCs, the participant numbers are not as large as in the Global North; for example, Belawati in Chapter 6 suggests that many of the MOOCs in Indonesia have less then 1,000 participants. This timely and eye-opening book from Ke Zhang, Curt Bonk, Tom Reeves, and Tom Reynolds, MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South (Zhang, Bonk, Reeves, & Reynolds, 2020), provides 28 chapters that describe the challenges, successes, and opportunities of MOOCs and open education from the perspective of 68 authors from 47 countries in the Global South (http://moocsbook.com). [Extracted from the article] |
