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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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Drake, Merja; Rajaorko, Päivi; Ubachs, George; Konings, Lizzie

Researchers have been interested in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from different viewpoints - the engagement and motivations of students, course completion and retention rates as well as course designs. MOOCs ...

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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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Itani, Alya; Brisson, Laurent; Garlatti, Serge

In this paper, we propose a machine learning based drop-out prediction process for spotting and preventing drop-out among MOOC learners early upon their interaction with the course. Two main goals are perused in this ...

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Ferreira, Giselle

Resources (OERs), one with a colleague in my own institution who has a respectable track record in innovative uses of educational technologies, another with a freelance learning facilitator engaged in full-time ...

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Ruipérez-Valiente, José A.; Cobos, Ruth; Muñoz-Merino, Pedro J.; Andujar, Álvaro; et al.

The emergence of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) makes available big amounts of data about students' interaction with online educational platforms. This allows for the possibility of making predictions about future ...

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Ikahihifo, Tarah K.; Spring, Kristian J.; Rosecrans, Jane; Watson, Josh

Our study found that most students considered OER to be as good or better in terms of quality and engagement as traditional texts, while also allowing them to put saved funds toward their educational pursuits. As rising ...

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Khalil, Mohammad; Ebner, Martin

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are remote courses that excel in their students’ heterogeneity and quantity. Due to the peculiarity of being massiveness, the large datasets generated by MOOC platforms require ...

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Lane, Andy

A number of visual models have been proposed to help explain the interplay and interactions between specified components of higher education systems at different levels and to take account of emerging trends towards ...

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Hew, Khe Foon

The paper describes a model of engaging students in fully online or blended learning environments. To do this, I first discuss the notion of student engagement and how it relates to the Self-Determination Theory of ...

Match: engagement