Attrition in MOOC: Lessons learned from drop-out students
| Published | September 2014 |
| Conference | Learning Technology for Education in Cloud: MOOC and Big Data |
| Series | Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 446, Pages 37-48 |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Editors | Uden, Lorna · Sinclair, Jane · Tao, Yu-Hui · Liberona, Dario |
| Country | Chile, South America |
ABSTRACT
Despite the popularity of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), recent studies have found that completion rates are low with some reported to be significantly lower than 10%. The low retention and completion rates are major concerns for educators and institutions. This paper investigates motivations for enrolling in a MOOC on the topic of 'e-learning' and discusses reasons for the attrition rates during the course. A survey of 134 students who had not completed the MOOC reveals that only 22% of the students had intended to complete the MOOC but was unable to due to various factors including academic and personal reasons. A big majority of the students indicated that changes in their job, insufficient time, difficulty with the subject matter and unchallenging activities are some of the reasons for the drop-out.| Keywords | attrition rate · completion rate · massive open online course · retention rate |
| Published at | Santiago |
| ISBN | 978-3-319-10671-7 |
| Rights | © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-10671-7_4 |
| URL | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-10671-7_4 |
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