Exploring Students’ Engagement Patterns in SPOC Forums and their Association with Course Performance

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dc.contributor.authorLiu, Zhi
dc.contributor.authorPinkwart, Niels
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Hai
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Sannyuya
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Guangtao
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-02T15:00:13Z
dc.date.available2024-05-02T15:00:13Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractWith the popularity of Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs) in higher education, a plentiful of discussion data has been increasingly generated in SPOC forums. With 752 undergraduates’ discussion posts, this study aims to investigate students’ engagement patterns within SPOC forums in terms of engagement behaviors and emotions. Firstly, we designed a behavioral code rule to identify posting- and content-level behaviors, and examined their association with course performance. Secondly, we built an emotion lexicon including positivity, negativity and confusion word sets, and adopted an emotion calculation approach to visualize emotional evolutionary trends and to examine emotional differences in registration types and course performance. The results show that, (1) the high-performing group was more active in the most engagement behaviors except for interactive postings. (2) The registered group delivered more threads and wrote richer vocabulary in post content. (3) Whether students were registered for a course or not did not have a significant effect on their emotional expressions, but the registered group exhibited more confusion in forum interactions at the end of the semester. (4) Positive emotion was prevailing for the entire population. Furthermore, compared with the low-achieving group, the high- performing group had higher emotion densities in three types of emotions.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Research Funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61702207, L1724007), MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (Grant No. 16YJC880052), China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201706775022), National Social Science Fund Project of China (Grant No. 14BGL131) , Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2018CFB518) and National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB1401303).
dc.identifier.citationLiu, Z., Pinkwart, N., Liu, H., Liu, S., & Zhang, G. (2018). Exploring Students’ Engagement Patterns in SPOC Forums and their Association with Course Performance. EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/91667
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/91667
dc.identifier.issn1305-8223
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/595
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleExploring Students’ Engagement Patterns in SPOC Forums and their Association with Course Performance
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcmi.typeText
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/91667
local.researchgroupBildung und Weiterbildung in der digitalen Gesellschaft
local.researchtopicMensch – Arbeit – Wissen
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