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Understanding Learners' Motivation and Learning Strategies in MOOCs

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Telemáticaes
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Aplicaciones y Servicios Telemáticos (GAST)es
dc.contributor.authorAlario-Hoyos, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorEstévez Ayres, Iria Manuela
dc.contributor.authorPérez Sanagustín, Mar
dc.contributor.authorDelgado Kloos, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorFernández Panadero, María Carmen
dc.contributor.funderComunidad de Madrides
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commissionen
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)es
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T11:34:54Z
dc.date.available2020-03-10T11:34:54Z
dc.date.issued2017-01
dc.description.abstractMOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have changed the way in which OER (Open Educational Resources) are bundled by teachers and consumed by learners. MOOCs represent an evolution towards the production and offering of structured quality OER. Many institutions that were initially reluctant to providing OER have, however, joined the MOOC wave. Nevertheless, MOOCs detractors strongly criticize their high dropout rates. The dropout rate is a commonly accepted metric of success for traditional education, but it may not be as suitable when dealing with OER, in general, and with MOOCs, in particular, since learners' motivations to take a course are very diverse, and certain self -regulated learning strategies are required to tackle the lack of personalized tutoring and keep pace in the course . This paper presents an empirical study on the motivation and learning strategies of MOOC learners. Six thousand three hundred and thirty-five learners from 160 countries answered a self report 7- point Likert-type questionnaire based on the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) as part of a MOOC titled Introduction to Programming with Java. Results indicate that learners were highly motivated and confident to do well in the course. Learning strategies, however, can be improved, especially regarding time management.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, projects MOOC-Maker (561533-EPP-1-2015-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), SHEILA (562080-EPP-1-2015-BE-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD) and COMPETEN-SEA (574212-EPP-1-2016-1- NL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), by the Madrid Regional Government, through the eMadrid Excellence Network (S2013/ICE-2715), and by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, project RESET (TIN2014-53199-C3-1-R) and fellowships FPDI-2013-17411 and PTQ-15-07505.en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationAlario-Hoyos, C., Estévez-Ayres, I., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Delgado Kloos, C., y Fernández-Panadero, C. (2017). Understanding Learners’ Motivation and Learning Strategies in MOOCs. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(3).en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i3.2996
dc.identifier.issn1492-3831
dc.identifier.publicationissue3
dc.identifier.publicationtitleInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learningen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume18
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/29866
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000024348
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherAthabasca Universityen
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/561533en
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/562080en
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/574212en
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. S2013/ICE-2715es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. TIN2014-53199-C3-1-Res
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. FPDI-2013-17411es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. PTQ-15-07505es
dc.rights© 2017 Athabasca University.en
dc.rightsAtribución 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaTelecomunicacioneses
dc.subject.otherMOOCsen
dc.subject.otherOERen
dc.subject.otherMotivationen
dc.subject.otherLearning strategiesen
dc.subject.otherMSLQes
dc.titleUnderstanding Learners' Motivation and Learning Strategies in MOOCsen
dc.typeresearch article*
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