How do learners in MOOCs attempt to resolve challenges they face?
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AERA 2016 Washington, DC
How do learners in MOOCs attempt to resolve challenges they face?
George Veletsianos, Justin Reich, Laura Pasquini Royal Roads University, MIT, U of North TX
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Attrition and Persistence
• Greatest attention in the MOOC literature • We know that students stop, we know a bit
about why they stop (e.g., time), but we don’t know how they respond to challenges generally.
• Although promising, Data Mining and Big Data methodologies have generated very few insights
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The unresolved question that we sought to answer…
How do learners attempt to resolve challenges they face? In what ways do they self-remediate? How do these strategies relate to Big Data?
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The study
4 HarvardX courses 30-45 minute skype interviews 4 semi-structured interview protocols 92 individuals
• 22 – 81 yrs old (mean=45) • 63M / 29F • N America (>50%), Europe, (>25%), S
America, Asia, Africa, Australia.
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Analytic methods
Analysis
Identify passages describing how learners attempt to resolve challenges they are facing
3 researchers à Constant comparative process
Codes (62, 58, 39 unique codes)à themes
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The results
Challenges Time Intellectual difficulties
How were these resolved?
3 Themes
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The results
Illustra)on:NY)mes:h2p://well.blogs.ny)mes.com/2013/09/19/what-a-messy-desk-says-about-you/?_r=0
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The results
Broadercontext
Broaderonlineenvironment
At their workstations
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The results
Broadercontext
Within the broader online environment
At their workstations
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The results
Within the broader context of their life
Within the broader online environment
At their workstations
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Implications
Stopping as a self-remediation strategy “Success” is complicated
Methodological diversity Designing interventions to support learners • Consider courses as network nodes • Notetaking strategies
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