Student Personality Characteristics Differ in MOOCs Versus Blended-Learning University Courses
This article conveys how online technology in education has become increasingly popular, especially blended-learning and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Although, research to date on blended-learning and MOOCs have revealed various factors that contribute to student success; however, systematic research on the personality characteristics of the learner, and how this could affect course performance remains sparse. This article is based off of the authors survey of students in a MOOC and a blended-learning course in Introductory Psychology about various personality characteristics that they believed could influence course performance. The results indicate that students in the MOOC versus blended-learning course exhibit different personality traits, and that these traits are associated with MOOC but not blended-learning course performance. These findings have important implications for fine tuning online teaching techniques to the personality types of the learners, which could improve course performance.
Year of publication: |
2018
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Authors: | Le, Ada ; Cheng, Cho Kin ; Joordens, Steve |
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International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD). - IGI Global, ISSN 2155-6881, ZDB-ID 2703580-3. - Vol. 8.2018, 2 (01.04.), p. 16-28
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Publisher: |
IGI Global |
Subject: | Blended-Learning | Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) | Online Teaching | Students |
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