Adult learners take MOOC courses for six stated reasons, including topical interest and viewing lurking as learning¶
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q1 i? The editorial enumerates six reasons adult learners take MOOC courses, from topical interest to treating peer review as an undesired burden. → Patricia A. Young 2021
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Patricia A. Young 2021¶
Patricia A. Young. (2021). The ever evolving MOOC. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-09959-6
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The editorial attributes this enumerated list of six learner motivations to Loizzo and Ertmer's (2016) study of MOOC learning culture, reporting it as the article's account of why adult learners enroll. It is a second-hand summary, not a new analysis.
"Adult learners take these courses because they are (1) interested in the topic; (2) seek a specific type of knowledge attainment; (3) find it a place to critique the quality of learning as they are consumers of information; (4) find lurking to be learning; (5) revel in their ability as self-sufficient learners or (6) understand peer review as an undesired thorn of MOOCs."
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Related Claims¶
- A University of Pennsylvania study found only about half of MOOC registrants viewed a lecture and only about four percent finished a course entirely — related
- Free, understandable, and accessible content ranked low (4%) as an enrollment motivator for SuaCode students, unlike in comparable MOOC motivation studies — related
- MOOCs failed to deliver on their proponents' promises of transforming higher education — related
- Focus group interviews with active and non-participating (lurking) students indicated that reasons for participation form a determinant dimension of online participation
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