TY - JOUR TI - The impact and reach of MOOCs: A developing countries’ perspective AU - Liyanagunawardena, T. AU - Williams, S. AU - Adams, A. T2 - eLearning Papers AB - Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a recent but hugely popular phenomenon in the online learning world. They are hailed by many as a solution for the developing world’s lack of access to education because MOOCs can provide learning opportunities to a massive number of learners from anywhere in the world as long as they can access the course through Internet. However, a close consideration of the ability of learn- ers from most developing countries to make use of MOOCs seems to contradict this rhetoric. This paper discusses features of MOOCs and looks at them from a developing countries’ perspective to conclude that due to a complicated set of conditions (‘access’, language, computer literacy among others) prevailing in developing countries, MOOCs may not be a viable solution for education for a large proportion of people in these ar- eas of the world. The paper further shows the need for more data on the demograph- ics of MOOC participants from developing countries to form a better understanding of MOOCs role in educating people from developing countries. DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 DP - Zotero VL - 33 SP - 38 EP - 46 LA - en SN - 1887-1542 ST - The impact and reach of MOOCs UR - http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/32452/1/In-depth_33_1.pdf KW - C:Low- and middle-income countries KW - NOTdocs.opendeved.net KW - ___working_potential_duplicate KW - ⛔ No DOI found ER -