Higher education and the digital revolution: About MOOCs, SPOCs, social media, and the Cookie Monster

Kaplan, Andreas; Haenlein, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2016.03.008

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“…The concept of "sustainability education" first emerged in "Our Common Future", also known as the Brundtland Report, issued by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in 1987 [8]. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) also launched Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as a guide to teaching and learning that promotes sustainable development growing from an idea into a global movement [9,10]. Nowadays, there are two main research fields in the education of sustainable development: (1) learning contents: what kind of topics and contents should be taught in courses?…”

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Enhancing the Efficiency of Massive Online Learning by Integrating Intelligent Analysis into MOOCs with an Application to Education of Sustainability

Zhou

2018

Sustainability

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is an innovative method in modern education, especially important for autonomous study and the sharing of global excellent education resources. However, it is not easy to implement the teaching process according to the specific characters of students by MOOCs because the number of participants is huge and the teacher cannot identify the characters of students through a face to face interaction. As a new subject combined with different areas, such as economics, sociology, environment, and even engineering, the education of sustainability-related courses requires elaborate consideration of individualized teaching for students from diverse backgrounds and with different learning styles. Although the major MOOC platforms or learning management systems (LMSs) have tried lots of efforts in the design of course system and the contents of the courses for sustainability education, the achievements are still unsatisfied, at least the issue of how to effectively take into account the individual characteristics of participants remains unsolved. A hybrid Neural Network (NN) model is proposed in this paper which integrates a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and with a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) based Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) in an effort to detect individual learning style dynamically. The model was trained by learners' behavior data and applied to predicting their learning styles. With identified learning style for each learner, the power of MOOC platform can be greatly enhanced by being able to offer the capabilities of recommending specific learning path and the relevant contents individually according to their characters. The efficiency of learning can thus be significantly improved. The proposed model was applied to the online study of sustainability-related course based on a MOOC platform with more than 9,400,000 learners. The results revealed that the learners could effectively increase their learning efficiency and quality for the courses when the learning styles are identified, and proper recommendations are made by using our method.

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Enhancing the Efficiency of Massive Online Learning by Integrating Intelligent Analysis into MOOCs with an Application to Education of Sustainability

Zhou

2018

Sustainability

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“…Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are open-access online courses that allow for unlimited participation and have revolutionized universities to corporate education landscape [1]. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures and readings, MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions among participating students and teaching professors.…”

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The development of medical MOOCs in China: current situation and challenges

Gong

2018

Medical Education Online

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This study aimed to investigate the current situation and challenges on the development of medical massive open online courses (MOOCs) in China. A survey was constructed and the statistical analysis was adopted to evaluate the medical MOOCs. The results showed that the medical MOOC-related journal papers, conference papers, books and dissertations have risen dramatically over the past five years. In addition, the top 6 most representative MOOC platforms provide the majority (87%) of medical courses. The statistical analysis showed that PMPH-MOOC was the most influential medical MOOC platform in China. Compared to the foreign medical MOOCs, medical MOOCs in China were urgently in need of systemic planning, interaction activities and international certification. Overall, the findings suggest that the development of medical MOOCs for higher education has been achieved a great success along with a huge challenge.

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“…Unlike MOOCs, SPOCs facilitate the adoption of blended learning modes, which combines self-paced learning with supervised instructional strategies (Rooney, 2003;Ward & LaBranche, 2003). In blended learning modes, SPOCs can assist teachers to observe and guide learners as a supplement to face-to-face classrooms where individual learning data are difficult to be recorded Kaplan & Haenlein, 2016;Kim, 2007).…”

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Exploring Students’ Engagement Patterns in SPOC Forums and their Association with Course Performance

Zhi

Pinkwart

Liu

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EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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With the popularity of Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs) in higher education, a plentiful of discussion data has been increasingly generated in SPOC forums. With 752 undergraduates' discussion posts, this study aims to investigate students' engagement patterns within SPOC forums in terms of engagement behaviors and emotions. Firstly, we designed a behavioral code rule to identify posting-and content-level behaviors, and examined their association with course performance. Secondly, we built an emotion lexicon including positivity, negativity and confusion word sets, and adopted an emotion calculation approach to visualize emotional evolutionary trends and to examine emotional differences in registration types and course performance. The results show that, (1) the high-performing group was more active in the most engagement behaviors except for interactive postings. (2) The registered group delivered more threads and wrote richer vocabulary in post content. (3) Whether students were registered for a course or not did not have a significant effect on their emotional expressions, but the registered group exhibited more confusion in forum interactions at the end of the semester. (4) Positive emotion was prevailing for the entire population. Furthermore, compared with the low-achieving group, the highperforming group had higher emotion densities in three types of emotions.

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Higher education and the digital revolution: About MOOCs, SPOCs, social media, and the Cookie Monster

Cited by 568 publications

References 15 publications

Enhancing the Efficiency of Massive Online Learning by Integrating Intelligent Analysis into MOOCs with an Application to Education of Sustainability

Enhancing the Efficiency of Massive Online Learning by Integrating Intelligent Analysis into MOOCs with an Application to Education of Sustainability

The development of medical MOOCs in China: current situation and challenges

Exploring Students’ Engagement Patterns in SPOC Forums and their Association with Course Performance

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