Comments in MOOCs: who is doing the talking and does it help?

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 51-64

  Swinnerton, B ^a   Hotchkiss, S ^b   Morris, N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

commenting; MOOC completion; MOOCs; social constructivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010332630     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcal.12165     Document Type: Article

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