Instructional design of MOOCs: State of research and recommendations

Interest in digital teaching is increasing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, pandemic teaching has been criticized for its low instructional quality. In this context, this paper explores whether MOOCs are suitable as good practice examples, which instructional principles can be used to design high-quality MOOCs, and which measures can promote self-regulated learning (SRL) in MOOCs. The results show that the instructional quality of MOOCs needs to be improved, and ten well-established instructional principles are suitable for designing high-quality MOOCs. Prompts are one effective measure to strengthen the use of SRL strategies in MOOCs.