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

项目描述：该项目正在制作一个大规模开放在线课程（MOOC）交付研讨会，以解决目前存在的MOOC的低完成率。项目团队正在研究影响完成率的因素，并收集数据，以表明增加人力指导和有指导的同伴学习如何影响学生的完成率。该研究基于两个观察结果：(1)mooc目前在高度自我激励的个体中更成功；(2)目前mooc中缺乏互动的人际指导。我们研究了六种不同的教师-学生和教师指导-学生同伴互动模式，以确定多种教师干预和人工指导方法对在线MOOC学生成功率的影响。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效果如何。这个及时的研讨会为研究和报告在mooc中增加互动式学生指导提供了开创性的努力。这项工作还在研究为高中和社区大学的学生提供更多低成本补习数学课程的可能性。在进入社区学院或大学校园之前完成这些数学补习的学生在大学里可能会更成功，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，这些课程内置了帮助学生完成这些课程所需的指导组件。

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.