Staggered versus all-at-once content release in massive open online courses: Evaluating a natural experiment

L@S 2015 - 2nd ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 185-194

  Mullaney, Tommy ^a   Reich, Justin ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MOOCs; Natural experiment; Ontrackness; Synchronicity

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; STUDENTS;

ALL-AT-ONCE; EXPERIMENT TESTING; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOCS; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; ONTRACKNESS; REVEALED PREFERENCE; SYNCHRONICITY;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84928012355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2724660.2724663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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