Approaches Reflected in Academic Writing MOOCs

Exercises in Academic Writing

Research papers are a fundamental means to share and archive research results within the scientific community. The aim of this nano-course is to learn how to write a (good) mathematical paper. In particular, we will highlight some peculiarities that are specific for mathematical writing. As writing is not a spectator sport, these notes also contain a series of exercises.

Exploring students learning approaches in MOOCs

This study aims at understanding different students approaches for solving assignments in MOOCs. It makes use of a large dataset of logs from students interaction with the MOOC platform Coursera on a course about functional programming with Scala. In total more than 10.000 students participated in the assignments. Learning approaches are divided in two categories: starting with video lectures (...

Organizational Patterns in Academic Writing

The purpose of academic writing is to present a number of ideas that somehow fit together to make sense. Sometimes the amount of new concepts, new words, and facts can be very large and complex. Professors, textbook authors, and researchers use a framework or plan that helps to communicate their ideas clearly. There are several types of plans, called organizational patterns that can be identifi...

Negative Language Transfer Reflected in ESL Learners’ English Writing

Improving Academic Writing in Nursing Education

Background: At a specialist nursing education in intensive care, located at a University college in Sweden, there was a desire among the faculty to develop their ability to support specialist nursing students in their academic development, as well as in their academic writing, to improve the overall quality of the master theses. A quality improvement design, the Plan, DO, Study, Act (PDSA) cycl...