During the last eight years, interest in massive open online courses (MOOCs) has grown fast and continuously worldwide. Universities that had never engaged with open or online learning have begun to run courses in these new environments. Millions of learners have joined these courses, many of them new to learning at this level. Amid all this learning and teaching activity, researchers have been busy investigating different aspects of this new phenomenon. In this contribution we look at one substantial body of work, publications on MOOCs that were produced at the 29 UK universities connected to the FutureLearn MOOC platform. Bringing these papers together, and considering them as a body of related work, reveals a set of nine priority areas for MOOC research and development. We suggest that these priority areas could be used to develop a strategic approach to learning at scale. We also show how the papers in this special issue align with these priority areas, forming a basis for future work.

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制定MOOC的战略方法

在过去的八年中，全球范围内对大规模开放在线课程（MOOC）的兴趣迅速增长。从未参与开放或在线学习的大学已开始在这些新环境中开设课程。数以百万计的学习者已经加入了这些课程，其中许多人是这个级别的新手。在所有的学与教活动中，研究人员一直在忙于研究这种新现象的各个方面。在本文中，我们着眼于一项实质性的工作，即与FutureLearn MOOC平台相关的29所英国大学制作的有关MOOC的出版物。将这些文件放在一起，并将它们视为相关工作的主体，将揭示出MOOC研究和开发的九个优先领域。我们建议可以将这些优先领域用于发展大规模学习的战略方法。我们还将展示本期特刊中的论文如何与这些优先领域保持一致，为将来的工作奠定基础。