Descriptive Analytics of MOOCs With ICT in Respect of Developed Countries and Indian Context

MOOC Participation in Different Countries

Available details on the locations of MOOC participants show that a large majority of participation is from North America and Europe (Liyanagunawardena, Williams, & Adams, 2014). There is very limited participation from Asia and even less from Africa. For example, (Miller & Odersky, 2013) show the participant distribution in the MOOC ‘Functional Programming Principles in Scala’ graphically, both as number of participants per country and as number of participants per country relative to the respective countries’ population, which clearly illustrates the lack of participation from Asia and Africa. On the other hand, there were a large proportion of participants (relative to countries’ population) from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland in the MOOC. Koutropoulos, et al. (2012), described the geographical distribution of participants and stated that “there was a large concentration of participation in Europe and North America with little participation in South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.”