Students' Motivations and Course Completion in MOOCs

DOI

10.2991/meici-16.2016.192How to use a DOI?

Keywords

MOOC; Motivations; Higher education; Course completion

Abstract

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been sweeping the world's higher education in recent years for the teaching and learning of different subjects. However, MOOCs typically have low completion rates, at least when compared with traditional courses. Students motives for gaining skills, ideas and inspirations, and develops their professional abilities. This paper will analyze the relationship between students' motivations and course completion in MOOCs, especially focusing on how learners' motivations for taking a MOOC influence their course completion. By reviewing quite a lot of literatures and taking the contrast experiments, we will discuss our work to study the motivational differences between students who complete the course and those who do not. We find that various students' motivations are affecting their course completion in a MOOC. It will supply with some supporting evidence for course instructors who can make adjustments to a MOOC course according to students' motivations.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jieyan Xiao
AU  - Wen Dong
PY  - 2016/09
DA  - 2016/09
TI  - Students' Motivations and Course Completion in MOOCs
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 930
EP  - 932
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/meici-16.2016.192
DO  - 10.2991/meici-16.2016.192
ID  - Xiao2016/09
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