The goal of this study is to examine undergraduate students' preferences and views about learning in a MOOC
and its educational values. The study included forty nine gifted undergraduate students, who study in teacher training
programs at Al-Qasemi collage. The students major in a variety of disciplines: Math, Computer science, English,
Sciences, Early childhood, and Arabic. The majority of them (94%) were females.
The study was conducted in three steps. First, the students studied about MOOCs and experienced the use of
Coursera platform (www.coursera.org) in the classroom; second, they were asked to select a MOOC according to
their preference, and participate in it for three weeks: watching lecture videos, answering quizzes, posting responses
to forums, and communicating with others; third, they were asked to critically evaluate the MOOC according to
certain specifications that were provided by the researchers.