Title: Adult Learners’ Participation in the MOOCs’ Vocational Curricula
Stream: Adult, Lifelong & Distance Learning
Presentation Type: Poster Presentation
Authors:
Minjie Son, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Ah-Jeong Hong, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Abstract:
Participation in online learning has increased worldwide due to the spread of COVID-19. Massive open online courses have contributed to expanding the opportunities for lifelong learning by developing professional developmental courses. This study explores the trend in the participation of adult learners in vocational curricula of massive open online courses by implementing topic modeling and network text analysis. A review of 180 academic documents from 2012 to 2021 led to the identification of three topics, “participation in learning,” “professional development,” and “social inclusion.” The collected articles were divided into two periods to confirm the change in the participation of adult learners who took vocational courses by using network text analysis. Early MOOC participation trends include articles from 2012 to 2019, a collection of 132 documents. Recent participation trends include 48 documents published from 2020 to 2021 when interest in MOOCs was triggered by the outbreak of COVID-19. This study found that the main participants in vocational education were teachers and education experts in both early and recent periods. Recently, the participation of currently-employed individuals in learning appears spontaneously and students from India and other Asian countries were included. The findings from this study confirm that massive open online courses have contributed to improving job performance by providing courses related to digital skills for teachers, making them easy to recover from the pandemic. Social inclusion also has been achieved by expanding participants worldwide.
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