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.
- Copyright
- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
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 ER -