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Understanding Learning and Teaching in MOOCs from the Perspectives of Students and Instructors: A Review of Literature from 2014 to 2016

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This article presents the results of a literature review on key learning and teaching dimensions in MOOCs. 95 studies published from January 2014 to October 2016 were selected for review. Four important learning and teaching dimensions were identified, and relationships between these dimensions were presented. The key dimensions and sub-dimensions reported in this literature review are student factors (education background, country of origin, age, gender, and motivation), teaching context (motivation, challenge, and pedagogical preference), student engagement (emotional, social, behavioural, and cognitive engagement), and learning outcomes (perception, retention, and grade). The review provides evidence of a relationship between student factors and engagement and a relationship between student engagement and learning outcomes.

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  • MOOC
  • Review
  • Student
  • Instructor

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  1. UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Ruiqi Deng & Pierre Benckendorff

  2. Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Deanne Gannaway

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  1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

    Carlos Delgado Kloos

  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Patrick Jermann

  3. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, San Joaquín, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Mar Pérez-Sanagustín

  4. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel T. Seaton

  5. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Su White

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Deng, R., Benckendorff, P., Gannaway, D. (2017). Understanding Learning and Teaching in MOOCs from the Perspectives of Students and Instructors: A Review of Literature from 2014 to 2016. In: Delgado Kloos, C., Jermann, P., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Seaton, D., White, S. (eds) Digital Education: Out to the World and Back to the Campus. EMOOCs 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10254. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59044-8_20

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