Participants' perceptions of a MOOC

Dropout: MOOC Participants’ Perspective

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) open up learning opportunities to a large number of people. A small percentage (around 10%) of the large numbers of participants enrolling in MOOCs manage to ?nish the course by completing all parts. The term ‘dropout’ is commonly used to refer to ‘all who failed to complete’ a course, and is used in relation to MOOCs. Due to the nature of MOOCs, with student...

Virtual Patients in a Behavioral Medicine Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Participants’ Perceptions

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to explore learners' perceptions of using virtual patients in a behavioral medicine Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) and thereby describe innovative ways of disseminating knowledge in health-related areas. METHODS A 5-week MOOC on behavioral medicine was hosted on the edX platform. The authors developed two branched virtual patients consisting of vid...

Perceptions of Secondary School Students towards Natural Resources Management: Case Study of Participants in FoF and Non-Participants

Integrating natural resources management in the secondary school curriculum in Kenya has received a lot of talk without adequate practical activities. The Farmers of the Future Programme under the World Agroforestry Centre, formally the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), initiated a practical approach to integration of natural resources management in the secondary school...

perceptions of secondary school students towards natural resources management: case study of participants in fof and non-participants

integrating natural resources management in the secondary school curriculum in kenya has received a lot of talk without adequate practical activities. the farmers of the future programme under the world agroforestry centre, formally the international centre for research in agroforestry (icraf), initiated a practical approach to integration of natural resources management in the secondary school...

an Investigation of Factors Affecting Utilization of MOOC from the perspective of R MOOC learners