期刊
JOURNAL OF GLOBAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
卷 26, 期 3, 页码 105-120出版社
IGI GLOBAL
DOI: 10.4018/JGIM.2018070108
关键词
Continuance; Course Completion; Forum Activities; Instructor-Student Interaction; MOOCs; Online Forums
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71471044, 71490721]
- Ministry of Education's Online Education Research Center Online Education Research Fund (Qtong Education) [2016YB134]
- Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Fund [2012BGL009]
This article describes how MOOCs, being a new global education and technology phenomenon, present both opportunities and challenges to educators and learners. The lack of face-to-face engagement introduces a sense of isolation in students, resulting in a high dropout rate. To this end, online forums are deemed to help overcome the problem by enabling interactions among the learners and facilitating their learning. Recent research further suggests that with an online forum provided in a MOOC, the presence of instructors may not be important. However, in this article, the authors provide two important insights: First, online forum indeed plays an important role in motivating learner continuance. Second, among the different types of forum activities, they find that interaction with instructors emerge as an important factor contributing to more assignment completions in addition to forum posting. The authors' post-hoc analysis also indicates that the importance of instructor presence may be particularly salient in the Eastern vis-a-vis Western culture, which points to future research opportunities.
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