Experiments in Student Mentoring, Tutoring, and Guided Peer Interaction in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

大规模开放在线课程 (MOOC) 中学生指导、辅导和引导同伴互动的实验

• 批准号: 1321336
• 负责人: Elaine Collins
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: San Jose State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-15 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1321336&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experiments; Student; Mentoring; Tutoring; Guided

Project Description:This project is producing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) delivered workshop that addresses the poor completion rate for MOOCs that currently exists. The project team is studying what factors impact the completion rates and gathering data that indicates how the addition of human mentoring and guided peer learning can impact student completion. The exploration is based on two observations: (1) MOOCs are presently more successful for highly self-motivated individuals, and (2) currently there is an absence of interactive human mentoring in MOOCs. Six different modes of instructor-student and instructor directed-student peer interactions are being investigated to determine efficacy of multiple methods of instructor intervention and human guidance in the success rates of online MOOC students. Ultimately, the project is offering guidance as to how MOOCs can more successfully impact a broader segment of students.Broader Significance:MOOCs are presently being offered on a large scale; however, there has been little discussion of how effective these courses are with respect to student learning. This timely workshop offers a groundbreaking effort to study and report on the addition of interactive student mentoring to MOOCs. The effort is also examining the potential to provide students in high schools and community colleges with increased access to low-cost remedial mathematics courses. Students who complete such mathematics remediation before they arrive at a community college or university campus may be more successful in college, thereby increasing the likelihood of obtaining a bachelor's degree. The workshop is helping faculty to design and offer MOOC-style courses that have built-in mentoring components that are needed to help students complete these courses.

项目描述：该项目正在制作一个大规模开放式在线课程（MOOC）交付研讨会，以解决目前存在的MOOC完成率低的问题。项目团队正在研究哪些因素会影响完成率，并收集数据，以表明增加人类指导和指导同伴学习如何影响学生完成。探索基于两个观察：（1）MOOC目前对于高度自我激励的个人来说更成功，（2）目前MOOC中缺乏互动的人类指导。正在调查六种不同的教师-学生和教师指导的学生同伴互动模式，以确定教师干预和人为指导的多种方法在在线MOOC学生成功率方面的有效性。最终，该项目将为MOOC如何更成功地影响更广泛的学生群体提供指导。更广泛的意义：MOOC目前正在大规模提供;然而，很少有人讨论这些课程对学生学习的有效性。这个及时的研讨会提供了一个开创性的努力，研究和报告在MOOC中增加互动式学生辅导。这项工作还在研究是否有可能为高中和社区大学的学生提供更多的低成本数学补习课程。在进入社区学院或大学校园之前完成这种数学补习的学生可能在大学里更成功，从而增加获得学士学位的可能性。该研讨会正在帮助教师设计和提供MOOC风格的课程，这些课程具有帮助学生完成这些课程所需的内置辅导组件。