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Doo, Min Young; Bonk, Curtis J.; Kim, Jungwon – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2021
Educators have raised concerns that massive open online courses (MOOCs) mainly serve the interests of advantaged groups. In response, this study examined underrepresented MOOC learners; namely, 2-year college students in South Korea in terms of their perceptions of MOOCs and learning readiness for MOOCs. A total of 119 Korean 2-year college…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Online Courses, Student Motivation, Self Control
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Chatman, Thomas; Dick, Dave; Ford, Paula; Henry, Pamela; Hobert, Kim; Keller, Miles; Riley, Kevin; Tidwell, Christina; Wright, Roberta – Inquiry, 2019
Over the last three years, 724,116 online courses were attempted within the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). From these attempts, 206,533 resulted in a grade of D or F or a withdrawal, accounting for 29% of all attempted online courses (Virginia Community College System, 2015). This does not account for the students who may have dropped…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Community Colleges, Learning Readiness, Access to Education
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Cabi, Emine; Kalelioglu, Filiz – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2019
The purpose of the study was to reveal the effect of a course taken through distance education on students' readiness and attitudes. Sequential explanatory design method was used as a research method in which qualitative and quantitative measurements were used in the research. For the quantitative data, a single group pre-test/post-test design was…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Online Courses, Student Attitudes, Distance Education
Dowd, Nathan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study is to determine how Wisconsin Technical College (WTCS) administrators and online instructors perceive the impact of online learner readiness and student support services to be on student success in online courses. The study used a modified three-round Delphi technique to determine to collect data. The results indicated…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Learning Readiness, Online Courses, Electronic Learning