We report about two ongoing studies, which challenge the individualistic model of MOOC based learning. MOOC usage is embedded in the context of collocated study groups. The ability to pause a lecture and discuss its contents with peers creates learning opportunities. Learning by explaining has been proved effective through many empirical studies. We investigate the best way to configure these s...

We describe an assessment strategy that helped to ensure high participation levels together with a relevant certification in a MOOC Mathematics course. We report on the first running of the Markov Matrices course making emphasis on the preparation of exercises with random parameters for graded weekly tests. A brief description is given of forum interactions during self-assessment moments follow...

We report on educators’ experiences of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) focussed on the ‘Carpe Diem’ learning design process. The MOOC was developed in-house using Blackboard CourseSites by a university innovation and development unit, Learning Transformations, at Swinburne University Technology in Melbourne, Australia. We propose the potential of MOOCs as an opportunity to expose university...

While discussion forums in online courses have been studied in the past, no one has proposed a model linking messages in discussion forums to a learning taxonomy, even though forums are widely used as educational tools in online courses. In this research, we view forums as information seeking events and use a keyword taxonomy approach to analyze a large amount of MOOC forum data to identify the...

This paper explores the influence of MOOC for the improvement of college students of electrical engineering based on the cloud platform and Moodle. MOOC-‘Massive Open Online Class’ is a new way of providing education along with the integration of network information technology and the educational teaching. It is widely recognized and favored because it has some advantages, such as being largesc...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are changing the contours of the teaching and learning landscape. Assessment covers an important part of this landscape and may be a key driver for learning. This paper presents preliminary results of a qualitative study that investigated learners’ views on assessment types within a MOOC. A thematic analysis of thirteen observations from online interactions i...

SPOC is not only a MOOC supplement but also the product of MOOC and traditional teaching method’s integration innovation, which cause the extensive concern of the global education. This article starts with mastering advanced concepts and the basic process of mastery learning theory, followed by a deep analysisof SPOC through mastery learning theory, and finally put forwards enlightenment on tea...

This work is an attempt to discover hidden structural configurations in learning activity sequences of students in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Leveraging combined representations of video clickstream interactions and forum activities, we seek to fundamentally understand traits that are predictive of decreasing engagement over time. Grounded in the interdisciplinary field of network sci...

Learning styles identification using learners’ behavior and the actions they perform on a MOOC environment constitute in our opinion not just an interesting research issue but also an important solution to improve MOOC effectiveness. Indeed, providing learners with learning resources and activities that suit to their preferences and learning styles increases their satisfaction improve learning ...