A Comparative Study Of MOOC And SPOC Forums

The nature of teaching and learning in distance education makes the interaction problem always the core problem in the field of distance education YWith tihe emergence and development of online learning community,the interaction is paid more and more attention Interaction is notonly a necessary way for members to carry out information exchange and knowledge cornstruction,but also an important way for emotional communication between members to form community sense of belonging and identity.Up to now,many scholars have studied and summarized the interaction problems in the online learning community and the learning behavior in the network environment from different aspects and perspectives.However,most of the existing research is based on the traditional online learning community and the study and the number of research objects is relatively smallL In the context of the rapid development of online education,it is necessary to analyze the interactive data generated in the MOOC forum with a large number of learners to explore some of the rules that exist in the interaction process to better promote teaching and learning.This study takes the 'Moden Educational Technology" forum as the research object,carries on the detailed research to the:interaction between the learners and the teacher(teaching assistant)who participates in the forum interaction from different aspects,which is divided into three parts.The first part includes three parts:introduction,theoretical basis and related concept definition and introduction ofModern Education Technology".In thi's part,the present situation of MOOC,SPOC and online learning interaction is analyzed by literature analysis firstly.Secondly,the concept and theoretical basis of this study are expounded.Finally,the platform and courses of this research is introduced.The second part includes two chapters:forum interaction analysis,correlation analysis of forum interaction and academic performance.In this part,useing the content analysis method,the social network analysis method and the statistical method to carry on the thorough research to the forum interaction,mainly studies the number of the first posts,the replies,the interactive time distribution,the interactive content,the network relation and the structure.And the difference between the two different types of learners and the relationship between the forum interaction and the academic performance,and draw the following conclusibns:(1)From the overall situation of interaction,the charge of the posts and the number of people involved in the discussion is basically the same trend;second the poster's role will affect the degree of attention to posts,and most SPOC learners have more postings more than MOOC learners.(2)In the general discussion area,the topic of communication and interaction is more extensive,but mainly in the course of learning class.Teachers and assistants rarely issued posts,in the general discussion area.MOOC learners and SPOC learners in the forum interactive content is no significant difference.(3)Forum interaction time analysis shows that learners posts in almost each time period of 24 hour,the difference lies in the number of posts.(4)The results of social network analysis shows that the whole forum,the contact between the actors more loose,there are a lot of isolated network points,less active.(5)The number of participants in the interaction is less than the number of classes,most of the learners are playing the "hiddenr" role.(6)SPOC learners have higher course completion rate than MOOC learners;the number of forum interactions is positively correlated with academic performance,the higher the number of forums,the higher the learners' grades.Finally,a number of suggestions are made to facilitate forum interaction and improve the curriculum.This paper compares the interaction between MOOC learners and SPOC learners,and provides the basis for rational consideration of MOOC and SPOC.