ABSTRACT
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) in Malaysia has been the primary focus of many universities since they first launched in September 2015. According to Global E-Learning Market Analysis and Trends in 2017, the global eLearning market is poised to grow at a compound annual growth rate of around 7% over the next decade to reach approximately $330 billion by 2025. However, it is not entirely clear how the MOOC approach to online education can be fiscally sustained. Such financial concerns also need to be viewed from the standpoint that the Malaysia government intends to have 15% of all Malaysian public university courses taught online as MOOCS by the end of 2015 and 30% of all university courses by the year 2020. Given the various reasons to learn from MOOCs, whether intrinsic or extrinsic, there needs to be a clear understanding of how government strategies and polices influence institutional policies toward sustainable MOOC development. As such, this chapter discusses the global trends and policy strategies and their implications for the sustainable and continually expanding development of MOOCs in the Malaysian context.
