Assessing the impact of the term "MOOC" vs "eLearning" in scientific literature and dissemination

Abstract

Due to educational and social impact reaching by Massive Open Online Courses and their near growth perspective, this paper develops a bibliometric study about the evolution of this term in the scientific and informative literature in contrast with the eLearning term. Based on the records obtained in Google, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, Dialnet, Worldcat and EBSCO databases, we analyze 1) both terms temporal trends in the number of records and their prospective; 2) major bibliometric and success indexes of selected publ ications; and 3) keywords co-occurrence relations graphs. The discussion shows how, while the growth and impact of eLearning in literature has stagnated in recent years, the Massive Open Online Courses are in full swing, both in scientific and in informative literature