Delving into Participants' Profiles and Use of Social Tools in MOOCs

Carlos Alario-Hoyos, Mar Perez-Sanagustin, Carlos Delgado-Kloos, Hugo A. Parada G, Mario Munoz-Organero
2014 IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies  
This paper presents an in-depth empirical analysis of a nine-week MOOC. This analysis provides novel results regarding participants' profiles and use of built-in and external social tools. The results served to detect seven participants' patterns and conclude that the forum was the social tool preferred to contribute to the MOOC. Index Terms-Collaborative learning, distance learning, computer and information science education Ç The authors are with the
doi:10.1109/tlt.2014.2311807 fatcat:vrnhqbnamvgatmqbxvhjydrxma