Article on History Critical Analysis

Running Head : ENGLISH
ENGLISH
Name of the Student
Name of the University

ENGLISH 1
Article - Lambert, S. R. (2020). Do MOOCs contribute to student equity and social
inclusion? A systematic review 2014–18. Computers & Education, 145, 103693.
Link -https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131519302465
Search History Summary
This section of the assignment will explain the process of searching the articles for further
critical analysis. First I confirmed the area of interest in accordance to the topics that are covered
in unit 1 and unit 2. Finally I confirmed the topic, equity and social inclusion of students in the
era of online courses. In connection to the topics that has been covered in the class materials of
Unit 1 and Unit 2 as well as within the lecture notes, I decided to run a thorough search within
the online database of Library. I narrowed down to the topic of education within the system of
library and also sorted the timeline of the published articles together with the status of peer
reviews. I narrowed down the articles in the context of their credibility. I searched a couple of
articles and read down their abstracts within the relevant field of research which interested me.
The chronological order of the search history story are as follows.
1. Opening the library online database
2. Searching for the topic with relevant key words and search terms
3. Adjusting the year of publication to the most recent ones
4. Sorting down the articles as per their peer reviewed status
5. Going through the abstract of 2-3 articles to find relevancy regarding the topic that I have
decided on my mind
6. Finalizing the research article that I will be using for critical analysis

ENGLISH 2
The selection of the topic as well as the procedure of the exploration that I used for deciding the
article that I will critically analyze includes the selection of the search terms, like, ‘online
education’, ‘equity among student’, ‘social inclusion’, ‘impact of online resource on student’.
The strategies that I have applied for narrowing it down includes searching the correct words, the
peer reviewed journals and current papers for critical analysis.
Critical Review
Summarization of the article
The article “Do MOOCs contribute to student equity and social inclusion? A systematic
review 2014–18” by Lambert focused over the investigation on how massive open online courses
and some of the other educational programs provide equitable online education forms for
addressing the wide participating agendas of the globe (Lambert, 2020).
The author of the literature divided his research study in empirical reports outcomes for
students and those of practitioner guidance. the author utilized 46 globally diverse reports and
studies which included 24 empirical evaluation of programs that reach over 440,000 learners
what disadvantage in blended and distance settings of learning. In contrast to the other existing
set of literature, this specific research study explain the flourishing rate of multilingual as well as
other languages apart from English addressing the social economic disadvantage of the region.
The author introduced the concept of massive open online courses within the research study and
defined as the open and distance learning program which rose towards a promise of increasing
accessibility of education for people and learners hailing from several background. In contrary to
the existing range of depend regarding open literature, this research study found out that it the