Abstract
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) play an ever more central role in open education. However, in contrast to traditional classroom settings, many aspects of learners' behaviour in MOOCs are not well researched. In this work, we focus on modelling learner behaviour in the context of continuous assessments with completion certificates, the most common assessment setup in MOOCs today. Here, learners can obtain a completion certificate once they obtain a required minimal score (typically somewhere between 50 - 70%) in tests distributed throughout the duration of a MOOC. In this se.ing, the course material or tests provided a.er "passing" do not contribute to earning the certi€cate (which is ungraded), thus potentially affecting learners' behaviour. Therefore, we explore how "passing" impacts MOOC learners: do learners alter their behaviour after this point? And if so how? While in traditional classroom-based learning the role of assessment and its influence on learning behaviour has been well-established, we are among the first to provide answers to these questions in the context of MOOCs.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | UMAP’17, Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization |
Editors | Federica Cena, Michel Desmarais |
Place of Publication | New York NY USA |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 83-88 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450350679 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalization (was AH and UM) 2017 - Bratislava, Slovakia Duration: 9 Jul 2017 → 12 Jul 2017 Conference number: 25th https://www.um.org/umap2017/index.html https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3079628 (Proceedings) |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalization (was AH and UM) 2017 |
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Abbreviated title | UMAP 2017 |
Country/Territory | Slovakia |
City | Bratislava |
Period | 9/07/17 → 12/07/17 |
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Keywords
- Certificate achievement
- Learning analytics
- MOOCs