Participation in Bazaar synchronous chat sessions is associated with roughly a 50 percent lower risk of dropout in an edX MOOC¶

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q2 i? A survival analysis of DALMOOC data, controlling for video clicks and discussion forum participation, found participation in chats lowers the risk of dropout by approximately 50 percent. → Carolyn Penstein Rosé & Oliver Ferschke 2016

Evidence¶

Carolyn Penstein Rosé & Oliver Ferschke 2016¶

Carolyn Penstein Rosé & Oliver Ferschke. (2016). Technology Support for Discussion Based Learning: From Computer Supported Collaborative Learning to the Future of Massive Open Online Courses. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-016-0107-y

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Survival analysis of participation in the Bazaar Collaborative Reflection chats in DALMOOC, with "the number of clicks on videos and the participation in discussion forums as control variables". The analysis found "the participation in chats lowers the risk of dropout by approximately 50 %"; the influence on learning was not yet assessed.

"While we have not yet assessed the influence of Bazaar on learning in a MOOC context, we performed a survival analysis to evaluate the influence of this collaborative learning activity on attr ition. Using the number of clicks on videos and the participation in discussion forums as control variables, we found that the participation in chats lowers the risk of dropout by approximately 50 %"

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