scholarly journals Influence of incentives on performance in a pre-college biology MOOC

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhang Jiang ◽  
Adrienne E. Williams ◽  
Mark Warschauer ◽  
Wenliang He ◽  
Diane K. O'Dowd
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Male Students ◽  
College Preparatory ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
College Biology ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Mathematics

<p>There is concern that online education may widen the achievement gap between students from different socioeconomic classes. The recent discussion of integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) into formal higher education has added fuel to this debate. In this study, factors influencing enrollment and completion in a pre-college preparatory MOOC were explored. University of California at Irvine (UCI) students of all preparation levels, defined by math Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score, were invited to take a Bio Prep MOOC to help them prepare for introductory biology. Students with math SAT below 550 were offered the explicit incentive of an early change to the biology major upon successful completion of the MOOC and two additional onsite courses. Our results demonstrate that, among course registrants, a higher percentage of UCI students (&gt;60%) completed the course than non-UCI registrants from the general population (&lt;9%). Female UCI students had a greater likelihood of enrolling in the MOOC, but were not different from male students in terms of performance. University students entering with low preparation outperformed students entering who already had the credentials to become biology majors. These findings suggest that MOOCs can reach students, even those entering college with less preparation, before they enter university and have the potential to prepare them for challenging science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses.</p>

Decoding and designing massive open online courses (MOOCs)

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Archana Shrivastava ◽  
Ashish Shrivastava
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Purchase Decision ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This study aims to investigate the attributes of the online programme that are considered and compute their relative importance in the purchase decision. This study aims to identify the most lucrative bundling of these attributes and their levels that can be used by online education companies to craft their product design strategy to attract customers with the most attractive offering. Design/methodology/approach This research paper endeavours to identify the attributes of online education, which customers consider for making a purchase decision. Exploratory factor analysis followed by confirmatory factor analysis was used to identify the key attributes of online education programmes. This paper uses the conjoint analysis technique to identify the most preferred bundling of attributes, which online education companies can package to attract customers. Findings Based on various attributes and their respective levels, it is evident the most lucrative design for attracting customers to buy online education programmes is to provide certification from a reputed international university, which requires an investment to the tune of 3,000–5,000. The duration of four weeks with asynchronous pedagogy and access to course material vial uniform resource locator (URL) is a preferred feature. Access via a mobile application is more preferred over Web access. A phone application is known to be optimised, and most people are using mobile phones to access the internet. Online certification or degrees that are considered as valid employment qualifications were most preferred over other reasons. Originality/value There is a dearth of studies on massive open online courses (MOOCs) from a product design perspective. There is a gap in the context of the features to be included in the MOOCs package so that the customer can find more value in it, and the companies can benefit by expanding their customer base. The research question which this study endeavours to explore is what attributes consumers of MOOCs consider when making a purchase decision. This study will also find the relative importance of these attributes.

The Future of Tourism, Hospitality and Events Teaching and Training

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Lade ◽  
Paul Strickland ◽  
Elspeth Frew ◽  
Paul Willard ◽  
Sandra Cherro Osorio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Potential Application ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

This chapter examines the ways in which teaching and training in tourism, hospitality and events have evolved and adapted to the contemporary demands of academia and industry. It explores the development of education in tourism, hospitality and events, the contemporary factors which influence teaching and learning, and discusses the rise of Massive Open Online Courses with a particular focus on their potential application within tourism, hospitality and events curriculum. The chapter concludes by providing an overview of Open Badges and their importance in education. At the time of writing, the world has been confronted by the Covid-19 global pandemic which has caused great disruption at all levels. The impact of Covid-19 is briefly addressed in this chapter as the enforcement of social distancing measures has led to a significant increase globally in online education.

scholarly journals Online education platforms scale college STEM instruction with equivalent learning outcomes at lower cost

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (15) ◽  
pp. eaay5324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Chirikov ◽  
Tatiana Semenova ◽  
Natalia Maloshonok ◽  
Eric Bettinger ◽  
René F. Kizilcec
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Blended Instruction ◽  
Global Demand ◽  
Stem Instruction ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Education Platform

Meeting global demand for growing the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce requires solutions for the shortage of qualified instructors. We propose and evaluate a model for scaling up affordable access to effective STEM education through national online education platforms. These platforms allow resource-constrained higher education institutions to adopt online courses produced by the country’s top universities and departments. A multisite randomized controlled trial tested this model with fully online and blended instruction modalities in Russia’s online education platform. We find that online and blended instruction produce similar student learning outcomes as traditional in-person instruction at substantially lower costs. Adopting this model at scale reduces faculty compensation costs that can fund increases in STEM enrollment.

scholarly journals The Economics of Online Postsecondary Education: MOOCs, Nonselective Education, and Highly Selective Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (5) ◽  
pp. 528-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Hoxby
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Advanced Education

I consider economically sustainable online postsecondary education, including massive open online courses (MOOCs). The analysis suggests that MOOCs will be financially sustainable substitutes for some non-selective postsecondary education, but there are substantial risks. The analysis suggests that MOOCs will be financially sustainable substitutes for only a small share of highly selective postsecondary education (HSPE) and are likely to collapse the economic model that allows HSPE institutions to invest in advanced education and research. I outline a non-MOOC model of online education that may allow HSPE institutions to sustain their distinctive activities and to reach a larger number of students.

scholarly journals Extraction of Student Interaction Data from an Open edX Platform

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (38) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Daniel Jaramillo-Morillo ◽  
Mario Solarte ◽  
Gustavo Ramírez-González
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Interaction Data ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Java Code

The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are courses available to the general public without restrictions that are offered to hundreds or thousands of students and in recent years have been presented as a revolution in online education. They are presented as an alternative to the great demand in higher education for the characteristic of being open and massive because they allow access to education to a huge number of students. They have become an ideal environment for data collection and through the application of learning analytics techniques they have allowed a better understanding of how students learn. However, access to the data from thecurrent open-source MOOC platforms is limited and often difficult to collect and process. This paper presents a proposal for collecting and processing the data from students’ interaction with the Open edX platform through Scripts and a Collector based on Java code. 

scholarly journals Malaysian Learners’ Preferences-Based Profile Model Towards Adaptive Massive Open Online Courses

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. Gharawi ◽  
Azman Bidin ◽  
Koo Ah Choo
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Massive Open Online Course

Massive open online courses’ technology is becoming the most recent innovations in online education and academia. Recently, it has been widely adopted in educational sectors and gained popularity among both students and instructors. Massive open online courses have rapidly become a trend in the field of higher education and received much recognition from scholars and non-profit educational organizations. Therefore, there has been a growing interest in investigating its limitations, challenges, and impact on education. Some issues and problems have been reported in the research and practice, such as problems related to massive open online course learners’ motivation and engagement during the courses, and course contents’ presentations have a significant impact on learner’s motivation. However, there have been few contributions to the literature in discerning the varying motivational drivers for choosing to consume the different presentation styles of massive open online courses. Therefore, the main goal of this work is to propose an innovative framework for adaptive massive open online course based on learners’ preferences. As such, the courses’ presentations are adapted to the preferred learning style of each learner. In this regard, this paper was conducted based on quantitative research methods.

scholarly journals Editorial Note

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Editorial Board ◽  
Andressa Liegi Vieira Costa ◽  
Max Steuer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Collection Methods

This Editorial Note contains a summary of the IAPSS Politikon webinar on 'Research and Education in Times of Pandemic' that focused on elucidation of online qualitative data collection methods and online education via using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It also announces the acceptance of the journal to ERIH PLUS database for the social sciences and humanities. 

Integrating Motivational Strategies Into Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

2018 ◽  
pp. 213-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Uçar ◽  
Alper Tolga Kumtepe
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Design Model ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Learner Motivation ◽  
Motivational Design ◽  
Potential Remedy

Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs, have become an indispensable part of the online education routine. Many universities and organizations put a lot of effort into designing, developing, and running such courses. However, it still remains to be an under-researched area. One of the most important issues associated with success in MOOCs is the learner motivation. High dropout and low retention rates have been attributed to learners' low motivation. A recipe for these motivational challenges in MOOCs is provided by the ARCS-V motivational theory. This motivation design model provides a frame for analyzing the MOOCs learners, learning environment, and the resources. Based on this analysis, the model provides suggestions for assigning motivational tactics and strategies. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to introduce Keller's ARCS-V motivational design model and discuss it as a potential remedy to motivational issues in MOOCs by administering and delivering motivational strategies based on the model in MOOCs environments.

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