Exploring ‘success’ in MOOCs

Liyanagunawardena, Tharindu R.; Parslow, Patrick; Williams, Shirley

doi:10.4324/9781315594248-7

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“…However, online courses have also been offered in higher education in general according to specific curriculum for many years. From the healthcare and medicine perspective, various short online courses have [1] been running successfully globally .…”

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Comparison of Online vs Classroom Delivery of Undergraduate Basic Medical Sciences Module

Hanif¹,

Ehsan²,

Ilyas³

et al. 2020

JUMDC

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ABSTRACT BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Corona virus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has impacted lives and institutes globally with serious consequences. No doubt universities are facing immense challenges in this transition to online education. To evaluate the effectiveness of online system of teaching in Covid 19 pandemic as compared to classroom teaching in a basic medical sciences module. METHODOLOGY: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Islamic International Dental College, from 15th February to 15th May 2020 on 1ST year BDS students. At the end of their online module, an online feedback questionnaire was given to students. Assessment of the online module was compared with the previous class module assessment to get an insight of their performance. SPSS version 25 was used. Student’s t test was used. RESULTS: A highly significant p value was found in both Physiology and Biochemistry online tests as compared to class tests. Regarding feedback, 63(91.3%) students preferred classroom teaching as it enhanced active participation 59 (85.5%) and student teacher engagement 62 (89.9%). Students agreed that queries were addressed during online sessions 57 (70.9%) but they seemed less motivated 21(30.4%) and grasping of difficult concepts was tough 48 (69.5%). Teachers seemed more enthusiastic in online teaching 52 (75.4%), but there was variety of teaching tools used in classroom sessions 65 (94.2%). CONCLUSION: Gradually medical universities, faculty and students will adapt with the e-learning but we need to implement innovative and proactive measures for students and faculty to enhance students learning.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Comparison of Online vs Classroom Delivery of Undergraduate Basic Medical Sciences Module

Hanif¹,

Ehsan²,

Ilyas³

et al. 2020

JUMDC

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“…The results indicated that all the detected factors demonstrated reliability coefficients of 0.70 or above, indicating good reliability. As the answer to the first research question, we could conclude that the developed scale for measuring the impact of MOOCs on the lives of completers is a valid and reliable instrument and covers different aspects of influencing factors from qualitative [11,15,19,21], quantitative e.g., [4,5,13,22] and mixed method [7,25,26] studies.…”

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“…The first question to ask before measuring the post-MOOC development of a participant is what do participants themselves intend to achieve after the completion of a MOOC. In addition to personal developmental goals or knowledge gains [19], the reasons for enrolling in and completing a MOOC can also be related to an intention of changing one's job [20] or pursuing career advancement [21][22][23]. Participating in MOOCs could also retain employment [24].…”

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“…An intention to continue using massive open online courses has been seen as a reason for participating and completing a MOOC. Studies have indicated that participating in a MOOC can be helpful for choosing future educational paths [25] or provide inspiration for taking paid-for university courses [19].…”

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“…Since many learners are keen to continue studying the MOOC topic after the course, as has been found in several studies [15,16,18,19,25], we developed the fourth construct to represent interest in future programming studies, with items like This course gave me the prerequisite knowledge to study a computer science-related speciality.…”

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Measuring the Post-Impact of Programming MOOCs: Development and Validation of an Instrument

2021

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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) can potentially affect the lives of millions of people, but there is little research on how a programming MOOC could affect participants’ lives after participation. In Estonia, we have organised several programming MOOCs over the years, attended by over 14,000 people. This inspired us to develop and validate a scale for measuring the impact of programming MOOC on participants’ lives. We analysed data from 1261 MOOC participants who had completed at least one of our programming MOOCs. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to validate the developed scale. The final model fitted quite well to the data. We found that the factors that influence learners’ lives after a MOOC include acquired learning skills, interest in continuing computer science related studies, learning experience gained from the MOOC, the MOOC’s impact on work and personal life, and new contacts that are established with other participants and organisers. We also compared the means of the factors. The highest-rated factor was related to the learning experience from the MOOC and the lowest-rated was related to finding new contacts through the MOOC.

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Polarities Inconsistency of MOOC Courses Reviews Based on Users and Sentiment Analysis Methods

Kumar¹,

Singh²,

Bhushan³

et al. 2022

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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Exploring ‘success’ in MOOCs

Cited by 7 publications

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Comparison of Online vs Classroom Delivery of Undergraduate Basic Medical Sciences Module

Comparison of Online vs Classroom Delivery of Undergraduate Basic Medical Sciences Module

Measuring the Post-Impact of Programming MOOCs: Development and Validation of an Instrument

Polarities Inconsistency of MOOC Courses Reviews Based on Users and Sentiment Analysis Methods

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