ABSTRACT
The advancement of online education has revolutionized the way students learn around the world. The technological resources allow the analysis, optimization and availability of new learning options that benefit several users of such resources. One of these options is gaining more popularity: The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which emerged as a new educational philosophy. The software ecosystem (SECO) perspective for the MOOCs platforms has been explored. The discussions pointed out in or in highlight the difficulties in identifying the specific functionalities of MOOCs as a barrier to understanding the MOOCs learning community ecosystem. For the conceptualization of the MOOCs ecosystems, it is possible to correlate these groups with the predefined SECO roles, considering that each group on the platforms performs some functions and interacting with certain groups, where both can exchange information.
