Toward a typology of MOOC activity patterns
| Published | May 2017 |
| Conference | 5th European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, EMOOCs 2017, Madrid, Spain, May 22-26, 2017, Digital Education: Out to the World and Back to the Campus |
| Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edition 1, Volume 10254, Pages 134-139 |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Editors | Kloos, Carlos Delgado · Jermann, Patrick · Pérez-SanagustÃn, Mar · Seaton, Daniel T. · White, Su |
| Country | Spain, Europe |
ABSTRACT
This paper aims at understanding MOOC learners' activity patterns, taking into account factors like personal schedule, traditional working hours, domestic time, nighttime and their relation with MOOC course opening hours, live sessions, essay submission deadlinesÅ‚dots} Are MOOC learners adopting nonstandard learning schedules? Does the MOOC schedule determine the connection patterns of the learners? Four search topics and findings emerge from our research A/Observations related to the density of learning activity B/A weekly typology of learning days, C/Attraction for a "live'' contact point, D/The "21:00 effect''. Finally, we suggest a series of best practices for MOOC design.| Keywords | learning schedule · live Q&A · MOOC · platform connection patterns |
| Published at | Madrid |
| ISBN | 978-3-319-59044-8 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-59044-8_15 |
| URL | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-59044-8_15 |
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