Role of Instructors' Forum Interactions With Students in Promoting MOOC Continuance
Role of Instructors' Forum Interactions With Students in Promoting MOOC Continuance
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教师论坛与学生互动在促进 MOOC 持续开展中的作用
DOI：
10.4018/jgim.2018070108
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Phang, Chee Wei
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作者：
Zhang, Chenghong;Chen, Hong;Phang, Chee Wei
本文描述了MOOC作为一种新的全球教育和技术现象，给教育者和学习者带来了机遇和挑战。缺乏面对面的参与会给学生带来孤立感，导致很高的辍学率。为此，在线论坛被认为通过促进学习者之间的互动和促进他们的学习来帮助克服这一问题。最近的研究进一步表明，在MOOC中提供在线论坛的情况下，教师的存在可能并不重要。然而，在本文中，作者提供了两个重要的见解：第一，在线论坛在激励学习者继续学习方面确实发挥了重要作用。其次，在不同类型的论坛活动中，他们发现，除了论坛帖子外，与讲师的互动也是促成更多任务完成的重要因素。作者的事后分析还表明，教师在场的重要性在东西方文化中可能特别突出，这表明未来的研究机会。
This article describes how MOOCs, being a new global education and technology phenomenon, present both opportunities and challenges to educators and learners. The lack of face-to-face engagement introduces a sense of isolation in students, resulting in a high dropout rate. To this end, online forums are deemed to help overcome the problem by enabling interactions among the learners and facilitating their learning. Recent research further suggests that with an online forum provided in a MOOC, the presence of instructors may not be important. However, in this article, the authors provide two important insights: First, online forum indeed plays an important role in motivating learner continuance. Second, among the different types of forum activities, they find that interaction with instructors emerge as an important factor contributing to more assignment completions in addition to forum posting. The authors' post-hoc analysis also indicates that the importance of instructor presence may be particularly salient in the Eastern vis-a-vis Western culture, which points to future research opportunities.