How learners' interactions sustain engagement: A MOOC case study

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 475-487

  Sunar, Ayse Saliha ^a   White, Su ^a   Abdullah, Nor Aniza ^b   Davis, Hugh C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Learning at scale; MOOC; Peer interactions; Prediction model; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FORECASTING;

LEARNING AT SCALE; MOOC; ON-LINE INTERACTIONS; PEER INTERACTIONS; PREDICTION MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85044277111     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2016.2633268     Document Type: Article

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