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E. e-Learning Delivery Issues

E01 POTENTIAL AND CHALLENGES OF MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOC) IN TEACHING

WRITING IN AN ESL CONTEXT

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Constance Amelia Louis , Melor Md Yunus , Harwarti binti Hashim
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Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 43600, Malaysia;
amelia.constancecatherene@gmail.com
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Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 43600, Malaysia;
melor@ukm.edu.my

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Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 43600, Malaysia;
harwati@ukm.edu.my

ABSTRACT Globally tertiary level learners encouraged to adapt into the online educational

environment. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) is a development of online education where

all of the content is delivered online. It has been instilled habits among tertiary learners that

traditional teaching method is appropriate for teaching and learning which created lack of
awareness on the importance and benefits of online education. Hence, MOOC has introduced to

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) undergraduates in order to ease the transformation into

online learning. The purpose of this study was to identify the potential and challenges of MOOC
towards gaining knowledge and skills in Teaching Writing in an ESL Context. This study employed

mixed-method research design using adapted online survey questionnaire and open-ended

responses to collect data. Total of 46 participants was involved in this study. Survey Monkey was

used to analyze data descriptively and supported by students' responses. The findings of this study

were divided two main themes which are potential and challenges of using MOOC for Teaching
Writing in an ESL Context. The results of this study had exposed the learners on the importance

and benefits of online learning. Overall, this study indicated that using MOOC for teaching and

learning particularly for this course had greatly contributed to its' learners and MOOC is an
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innovative method to develop 21 century skills.

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Keywords: 21 -century learning, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), online learning, potential
and challenges

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