Vote Me Up If You Like My Ideas!! Experiences of Learning in a MOOC

Rebecca Eynon; Isis Hjorth; Nabeel Gillani; Taha Yasseri

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2439571

Vote Me Up If You Like My Ideas!! Experiences of Learning in a MOOC

Rebecca Eynon, Isis Hjorth, Nabeel Gillani, Taha Yasseri

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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To fully understand and support learners in MOOCs we need a way of detecting and differentiating distinct learner profiles (reflecting motivations, goals, preferences for course elements and online behaviours) - particularly given the “crowd like” nature of these settings. This paper highlights some steps towards this goal. Using a range of data sources from one case study MOOC on business strategy we address three questions: 1) can we distinguish coherent profiles of learners’ interactions within a MOOC? 2) how do these interaction profiles relate to learner characteristics? And 3) what is the relationship between these interaction profiles and learners’ performance and experiences of learning within a MOOC?

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2439571
Publication status	Published - 11 Jun 2014

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MOOC
student experience
digital trace data
interviews
mixed method

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