Literature Trend on Massive Open Online Courses Through Bibliometric Investigation.

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have changed how people access academic information. Over the last few years MOOCs have become one of the leading modes of imparting education to people sitting throughout the world in their comfort zones. The pandemic has given more credence to it, and the platform has reached the student community and helped them ubiquitously. The popularity of MOOCs has resulted in a significant increase in research across many disciplines, especially during pandemic. The study discussed in this article explores the bibliometric analysis of scholarly literature on MOOCs, covering all the countries' publications indexed on the Web of Science. The study aimed to analyze the research trends on MOOCs worldwide. The data was collected from the Web of Science database in July 2021, using the bibliometric approach to identify prolific journals, productive authors, top countries, collaborations, co-occurrences of keywords, etc. The results reveal that a significant increase has occurred in MOOCs' research apart from a remarkable increase in publications. Moreover, the developed countries already contributing to the MOOCs' output are considerably producing rich research on MOOCs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]