Jee Mei Hee

Exploring MOOC from education and Information Systems perspectives: a short literature review

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained significance as a new paradigm in education. MOOCs are open to any interested person and provide education products for a scalable number of learners who have access to the Internet. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in MOOCs including their types, theories and challenges. Although this is an important and challenging field for Information Systems researchers, a rich and structural literature review has not yet been conducted in this area. The purpose of this article is to present a short review of recent research into MOOCs. Thirty-two papers were selected for review through four search engines with a search of key terms related to MOOCs. On the basis of this review, a holistic definition on MOOCs is presented and an overview of the relevant theories and issues is provided.

Designing a Scenario-Based Questionnaire to Assess Behavioral Intention in Social Networking Sites’ Ethical Dilemmas

Behavior in the field of Information systems is a popular topic of research. Researchers in different contexts try to propose models and theories to show the influential factors that influence individuals’ behavior. In these kinds of researches, the behavior of people in a certain context is investigated and a set of variables as its predictor are being proposed. However, in some cases such as individuals’ behavior in context of ethical dilemmas it is not possible to observe or ask respondents about the behavior directly. In these cases, a scenario-based questionnaire might be very helpful. This paper proposes a method to design proper scenarios for these kinds of questionnaires focusing on Social Networking Sites’ ethical dilemmas.

Understanding the Setting of a MOOC: A Journey into Coursera

Massive Open Online Courses MOOC are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore in online education. Recent developments in MOOC have heightened the need for understanding the MOOC. The issue of an in-depth understanding of the MOOC setting has been a key subject within the field of qualitative research. However, far too little attention has been paid to the MOOC setting. This paper seeks to put the Netnography methodology into context by presenting a description of the Coursera community to better understand this community. It contributes by providing details about Coursera community through our engagement in this community.

A metamodel for tourist intentions to visit a destination using systematic literature review

Different social and psychological variables has been identified in previous studies leading to understand the tourists behavior and intentions to visit a destination. However, tourism literature does not have a combined list of these constructs for predicting such intentions. Understanding these constructs can provide guidelines for tourisms stakeholders to attract tourists to a specific destination. This review identifies the variables that provoke the intentions of tourists to visit a destination. A systematic literature review methodology has been adopted, focusing on conference papers published during the last six year on tourism research. The study uncovered six essential constructs, namely: Satisfaction, Destination Attractions, Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC), Perceived Risk, Perceived Value, and Experience. A metamodel has been designed revealing the relationship among the aforementioned constructs. Moreover, the findings show that tourists satisfaction, experience and destination attractions creates positive intentions to visit a destination or recommend it to others.

Individual Characteristics and Hacking, Piracy, Online Gambling and Pornography Use among Students: A Study in Malaysia

In this study, 441 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia students participated as respondents. Through a questionnaire respondents were asked how frequently they engage in specific behaviors, including hacking, using pirated software, music and movies in addition to use of gambling and pornography sites. The aim was to investigate which individual characteristics including age, gender, religion, citizenship, level of education, ego strength and locus of control are among determinants of these behaviors. The results of these questions were used to report the ratio of frequent users of these materials based on different categories. Logistic regression was used to see what the influential factors in the investigated behaviors are. The results suggest that males are more engaged with almost all of the investigated behaviors. In addition, citizenship, ego strength, age and religion reflected a statistically significant difference among people in certain activities. Level of education and locus of control did not reflect any significance in engaging in aforementioned behaviors.