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A Research Based On Students’ Learning Experience On Massive Open Online Courses

Posted on:2016-06-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y X DengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2297330464952525Subject:Education Technology
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The essence of education is "to educate people-oriented, student-centered", Modern education is very concerned about the dominant position of students, the Main Educational theory also advocates the development of students as a subject in view, the fundamental problem of education is a human problem. Therefore, more and more people are concerned about the student’s learning experience studies. Attention to students’ needs and meet their needs, has become an important goal of modern education development, student learning experience is one of the factors of education quality assurance system. Massive Open Online Courses (short as MOOC) since 2008 become attention of the global, now has become a cut-off point of Internet education applications, technology development to online education opportunities, it also brings new challenges, online education is different from the traditional face to face classroom teaching, in content presentation, knowledge transfer, teacher-student interaction and so there is its particularity, student learning experience will be different.2013 year "NMC Horizon Report" forecast in the next 12 months, MOOC will be widely adopted in higher education.2014 MOOC indeed everywhere in the world, but has not yet reached the ability to "widely used" effect, the current lack of interest in the MOOC students, to participate with students MOOC learning experience is relevant. Positive learning experience that allows students to be more actively engaged in learning, in turn, will reduce the negative learning experience of students’interest in learning.This paper will be based on the perspective of the student body, concerning MOOC learners’ learning experience, using quantitative survey combined with analysising learners’interaction text to collect data from the perspective of the learner experience.After the data analysis,we will have a conclusion.The current development of large-scale online open courses pattern suggestions, calling the future of online education focusing on user experience, emphasizing student-centered, for learners to provide more personalized, user-friendly learning services.The paper composed by the following seven chapters:Chapterl is the introduction, describes the origin of this study, from the MOOCs are currently online educational practice mode, one of the concerns of online education, concern learners experience. In this part of the problem and the study conducted a comprehensive review, including the definition and sort of core concepts related research results at home and abroad, and clearly the research questions of this study, the purpose and significance of research ideas and methods.Chapter 2 is the theoretical basis, this study presents the Main educational theory, Connectionist learning theory as the theoretical basis of this study, and these two theories expounded theories supporting role on this article.Chapter 3 is the design and implementation of research activities, the main part of the study describes the survey design, conduct and analysis of the use of the contents of the text when interactive qualitative analysis activities based on the specific study design and implementation process.Chapter 4 analyzes the overall learning experience survey results, the analysis is mainly collected through questionnaires around the massive open online courses in the learner basic information, the basic situation MOOC learning and learning experience data MOOC three parts, and each processing and analysis of data from the platform experience, curriculum learning experience, social interaction and other aspects of the experience.Chapter 5 of the learning experience of the cases analyzed, the main course is chosen at MOOC platform, shell network MOOC college students both platforms part of the learning experience of the process data using content analysis of interactive text qualitative analysis to understand the true learner The MOOC learning experience feelings.Chapter 6 presents recommendations to improve the learning experience of learners, after analysis of the results based on the research, review and summarize the experience from the platform, curriculum learning experience, social interaction experience of these aspects of the learner made specific recommendations.Chapter 7 Summary and Outlook, summarize the results of this study and the inadequacies that future research prospects.
Keywords/Search Tags:learning experience, the Main Educational theory, massive open online courses, e-learning, community interaction
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