Patterns of Persistence: Redefining "Student Success" in an English Writing MOOC

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 | 12:40PM–1:30PM | Meeting Room W303
Session Type: Professional Development
In this session, we will discuss research results in an English writing MOOC. Moving beyond a pass/fail dichotomy, we discovered participation patterns that suggest different levels of student effort and learning outcomes. We'll also discuss the intensive course activity data preprocessing required to make the data meaningful and usable.


OUTCOMES: Understand different student motivations, participation patterns, and outcomes in MOOCs * Apply this understanding to your institutional context to consider how you might integrate MOOCs into your academic technology services * Identify the processes used to analyze MOOC data and be able to manipulate it

Presenters

  • Pat James

  • Steve Miley

    IT Director - Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • John Whitmer

    Senior Fellow, Federation of American Scientists