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ERIC Number: EJ1418837
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 32
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-2357
EISSN: EISSN-1573-7608
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From Unsuccessful to Successful Learning: Profiling Behavior Patterns and Student Clusters in Massive Open Online Courses
Education and Information Technologies, v29 n5 p5509-5540 2024
The imbalance in student-teacher ratio and the diversity of student population pose challenges to MOOC's quality of instructor support. An understanding of student profiles, such as who they are and how they behave, is critical to improving personalized support of MOOC learning environments. While past studies have explored different types of student profiles, few have been done to investigate which student profiles lead to successful performance and what behavior patterns are exhibited by successful and unsuccessful performance groups. To address this research gap, we employed both bottom-up and top-down strategies, to gain useful insights into student learning in the context of MOOCs. From learning behavior records of 26,862 students in six MOOCs, we identified and validated three behavior attributes: effort regulation, self-assessment, and learner participation. Our results revealed that effort regulation emerged as the foremost important factor that positively contributes to students' academic performance in MOOCs. Particularly, online persistence was the strongest positive predictor impacting student success. Based on the behavior attributes ascertained, we demonstrated five student sub-profiles with different behavior patterns: Persistence Achievers and Social Collaborators in the successful group; Dabblers, Disengagers, and Slackers in the unsuccessful group. Our analysis revealed that successful performers engaged with the course in quite different ways. We also investigated how effort regulation differed significantly between successful and unsuccessful performers. Unexpectedly, we also noticed that Persistence Achievers, despite their success, exhibited a high degree of procrastination. This work offers novel insights into instructional interventions for supporting MOOC learning.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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