Who wants to chat on a MOOC? Lessons from a peer recommender system
| Published | May 2017 |
| Conference | 5th European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, EMOOCs 2017, Madrid, Spain, May 22-26, 2017, Digital Education: Out to the World and Back to the Campus |
| Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edition 1, Volume 10254, Pages 150-159 |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Editors | Kloos, Carlos Delgado · Jermann, Patrick · Pérez-Sanagustín, Mar · Seaton, Daniel T. · White, Su |
| Country | Spain, Europe |
ABSTRACT
Peer recommender systems (PRS) in MOOCs have been shown to help reducing attrition and increase performance of those who use them. But who are the students using them and what are their motivations? And why are some students reluctant to use them? To answer these questions, we present a study where we implemented a chat-based PRS that has been used during a MOOC session involving 6,170 students. Our analyses indicate that PRS-users are students unsatisfied by other means of interactions already available (forums, social networksłdots}), and that they seem to use it more to share emotions than to learn together, or to assess their progression against their peers.| Keywords | peer recommender system · social learning · synchronous chat · synchronous collaboration in MOOC |
| Published at | Madrid |
| ISBN | 978-3-319-59044-8 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-59044-8_17 |
| URL | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-59044-8_17 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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