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Metwally, Ahmed Hosny Saleh; Wang, Yining

In recent years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have a widespread and became one of the future trends to help people from different places to learn online and study courses in different majors. One of the most ...

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Çelik, Berkan

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have made a great progress around the world in the recent years. Bilgeİş Online Learning Portal (bilgeis.net) is one of the most comprehensive MOOC portals providing pdMOOCs ...

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Hew, Khe Foon; Qiao, Chen; Tang, Ying

Although massive open online courses (MOOCs) have attracted much worldwide attention, scholars still understand little about the specific elements that students find engaging in these large open courses. This study ...

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Al Abri, Maimoona; Elhaj, Abdelrahman

The rapid growth of online education has brought to the forefront the critical need for designing high-quality online courses that effectively engage learners and facilitate their success in the digital realm. This ...

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Kizilcec, René F.; Piech, Chris; Schneider, Emily

As MOOCs grow in popularity, the relatively low completion rates of learners has been a central criticism. This focus on completion rates, however, reflects a monolithic view of disengagement that does not allow MOOC ...

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Sinclair, Jane; Kalvala, Sara

Completion rates in massive open online courses (MOOCs) are disturbingly low. Existing analysis has focused on patterns of resource access and prediction of drop-out using learning analytics. In contrast, the ...

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Hernández, Rocael; Amado-Salvatierra, Hector R.; Kloos, Carlos Delgado; Jermann, Patrick; et al.

This work explores on the different phases of the student's participation in a MOOC. For this particular study three phases of a MOOC are defined: pre-MOOC, MOOC and post-MOOC. This work presents an innovative framework ...

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Loglo, Frank Senyo; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf

This study explored how academics in a Ghanaian university conceptualized and engaged with OER through a qualitative approach (in-depth interviews). “Access” emerged as the most dominant theme in how OER was ...

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Xiong, Yao; Li, Hongli; Kornhaber, Mindy L.; Suen, Hoi K.; et al.

Students who are enrolled in MOOCs tend to have different motivational patterns than fee-paying college students. A majority of MOOC students demonstrate characteristics akin more to "tourists" than formal learners. As ...

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Shrivastava, Avinash; Guiney, Peter

This paper aims to assist the New Zealand Ministry of Education, the Tertiary Education Commission and other decision-makers in the tertiary education sector to gain a better understanding of the newer ...

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