Moving through MOOCs: Pedagogy, Learning and Patterns of EngagementRebecca Ferguson, Doug Clow (OU)Russell Beale, Alison J Cooper (Birmingham)Neil Morris (Leeds)Siân Bayne, Amy Woodgate (Edinburgh)

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Detailed slides:http://bit.ly/1UVCZgI

Photo: Rebecca Ferguson

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Have you:• Seen a MOOC?• Completed a MOOC?• … on more than one platform?• … on more than three platforms?

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https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm

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Scottish Independence Referendum, 19 Sep 2015Photo © Time http://time.com/3400609/scotland-votes-to-stay-the-same-and-for-change/

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Coursera study:• Sampling• Auditing• Disengaging• Completing

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OU study:1. Samplers 2. Strong Starters 3. Returners4. Mid-way Dropouts 5. Nearly There 6. Later Completers 7. Keen Completers

This study:• More universities• More MOOCs• More clusters

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Galaxy cluster Abell 1758,(CC) BY-NC NASA Marshall Space Flight Center https://flic.kr/p/8wFrUX

Code weekly behaviour

Cluster analysis (k-means)

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Phase three: suitable values for kTalkMOOC3: k=3

Phase three

Quiet (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

●The largest cluster

●Visit a quarter of course steps

●Do not comment in first week

●Only 7% comment at all

●Only 9% engage with second half of course

Contributors (3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)

●19% of cohort

●Visit 38% of course steps

●Every cluster member posts in first week of course

●Half do not comment again

Consistent engagers(3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1)

●11% of cohort

●Visit 82% of course steps

●Engage throughout course

●Every cluster member posts a comment

●95% contribute more than three comments

●7% contribute more than 100 comments

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Phase three: suitable values for kShortMOOC4: k=4

Phase three

Very weak starters (2, 1, 0)

●The largest cluster

●Visit 20% of steps

●20% do not engage in first week

Strong starters (truncated) (10, 1, 0)

●17% of cohort

●Submit week 1 assessment

●Do not submit another assessment

●Almost half post comment

Returners (truncated)(3, 3, 1)

●Most submit week 1 assessment

●All submit week 2 assessment

●Half submit at least one comment

Keen completers (truncated) (9, 9, 9)

●Visit more than 90% of steps

●Submit work on time

●Engage throughout

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Phase three: suitable values for kShortMOOC5: k=5

Phase three

Samplers (truncated) (1, 0, 0)

●Visit few steps

●Includes many latecomers (>25%)

●Very few submit assessment Strong starters (truncated)

(9, 1, 0)

●Submit week 1 assessment

●Do not submit another assessment

Returners (truncated)(8, 8, 2)

●Most submit week 1 assessment

●All submit week 2 assessment

Keen completers (truncated) (9, 9, 9)

●Visit more than 90% of steps

●Submit work on time

●Engage throughout

Improvers (5, 6, 9)

●Activity increases each week

●Final assessment submitte on time

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“Sweep it under the carpet”, Banksy, HoxtonPhoto szater https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banksy_-_Sweep_at_Hoxton.jpg

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Rebecca Ferguson @R3beccaFDoug Clow @dougclow

These slides:http://bit.ly/1FfQ5y4

Detailed slides:http://bit.ly/1UVCZgI