Big course small talk: twitter and MOOCs — a systematic review of research designs 2011–2017

Table 1 Full Mapping of Research Methods Used

	Interviews	Surveys / Questionnaires	Researcher analysis of social media content	Machine analysis of social media content	Social network analysis	Other metadata analysis
Abeywardena 2014				x
Alario-Hoyos et al. 2014						x
Alario-Hoyos et al. 2013		x				x
Bell et al. 2016		x			x	x
Bozkurt et al. 2016				x	x
Chen et al. 2016						x
Costello et al. 2017					x
Costello et al. 2016.				x
Cruz-Benito et al. 2015		x	x	x		x
Cruz-Benito et al. 2017		x	x	x		x
de Keijser and van der Vlist 2014					x	x
de Waard et al. 2011		x
Enriquez-Gibson 2014a				x
Enriquez-Gibson 2014b				x		x
Fournier et al. 2014	x	x	x	x	x	x
García-Peñalvo et al. 2015				x		x
Jiang and Kotzias 2016					x
Joksimović et al. 2015a, b				x	x
Joksimović et al. 2015a, b			x	x		x
Knox 2014		x	x	x		x
Kop 2011		x	x	x		x
Koutropoulos et al. 2014				x
Kravvaris et al. 2016				x		x
Liu et al. 2016		x	x			x
Saadatmand and Kumpulainen 2014	x	x				x
Salmon et al. 2015	x	x		x
Shen and Kuo 2015				x	x	x
Skrypnyk et al. 2015					x
Spilker et al. 2015		x		x		x
Tu 2014			x	x	x
van Treeck and Ebner 2013				x		x
Veletsianos 2017			x	x		x
Yeager et al. 2013			x		x	x
Zhang et al. 2015						x
Totals	3	14	11	22	12	22