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Adult learners' perceptions of MOOC motivation, success, and completion : = a virtual ethnographic study.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Adult learners' perceptions of MOOC motivation, success, and completion :/
Reminder of title:	a virtual ethnographic study.
Author:	Loizzo, Jamie Lynn.
Description:	1 online resource (300 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 77-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International77-03A.
Subject:	Adult education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3719417click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781321997583

Adult learners' perceptions of MOOC motivation, success, and completion : = a virtual ethnographic study.
Loizzo, Jamie Lynn.

Adult learners' perceptions of MOOC motivation, success, and completion :a virtual ethnographic study. - 1 online resource (300 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 77-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been credited with disrupting the traditional classroom and challenging distance education models in higher education. MOOCs were developed with the intention of opening up education to the masses, specifically those in developing countries who could not readily access educational resources or opportunities. However, early quantitative reports have shown that MOOC participants tend to be adult learners who already possess bachelor's or master's degrees. Additionally, MOOC completion rates have been reported to be significantly low with less than 15% of enrolled students actually completing them. This has led to questions about who the true target learners are and whether completion is the proper measure for gauging the effectiveness of MOOCs. Qualitative research has the potential to demystify questions about MOOC learners' motivations and perceptions of success and completion. However, ethical issues of conducting qualitative research in open online environments present challenges and require a thoughtful research design regarding consent, privacy, and intellectual property. This study used virtual ethnographic, narrative inquiry, and photo-elicitation methods to qualitatively examine the experiences of adult learners (n = 12) from around the world who were enrolled in a MOOC on the social justice topic of human trafficking via the Coursera platform. The anthropological nature of the research methods led to a richer understanding of the adult learner MOOC culture as a socially dynamic democratic environment involving social presence, lurking, up-voting, down-voting, peer review, and reputations. Results from the study include co-constructed narratives of adult learners' MOOC experiences, themes of commonalities and differences across learner experiences, a thick description of MOOC culture, and an initial conceptual framework for understanding adult learners' perceptions of MOOC motivation, success, and completion.The findings of this research and its resulting conceptual framework could be beneficial for platform providers, instructors, and instructional designers who are developing MOOCs intended for adult learners in the areas of continuing education, professional development, volunteerism training, as well as for adults who are considering enrolling in graduate school. This study highlights a need for a more learner-centered approach to MOOC design and suggests that MOOCs have the potential to facilitate a global discussion on social justice topics as a component of attitude change instruction. Implications for MOOC design and suggestions for future research are presented.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781321997583Subjects--Topical Terms:

543202
Adult education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Adult learnersIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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