A STEM MOOC for School Children
What Does Learning Analytics Tell us?
Khalil, Mohammad and Ebner, Martin
ICL-2015, Florence, Italy
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MOOCs ??
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Will STEM MOOCs replace classes ?
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MOOCs
for
School
Children?
• An overlooked topic
• What data tells us?

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MOOCs
for
School
Children?
Mechanics in everyday life

Mechanics in Everyday Life MOOC
Contents:
§ 10-Weeks course
§ 46 learning videos
§ Forums Discussions
§ 10 Quizzes with 5 trials each

Tracking Traces
through
Learning Analytics
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What Can Learning Analytics do?
• Students improve their performance
• Predict the student’s grades
• Enhance retention percentages
• Point difficulties in courses models

Participants Background
• 27 School Pupils
• 242 other participants
• 18.5% certification rate of pupils
• 6.8% certf. rate of all participants

Activity Profile
Students Performance

Dropout rate

Certified pupils did more
quiz trials when they don’t
access videos

Consider the MOOC
as playing a game?

Activity Profile
Students Performance

Advanced trials
achieved higher
scores than
previous trials.
Guided learning
was gained through
each trial

Conclusions
• Implement a MOOC within a didactical approach in the classroom
• Expand in-the-class teacher roles in STEM MOOC
• Design shorter MOOCs to increase completion rates1
Ref: Lackner, E., Ebner, M., Khalil, M. “MOOCs as granular systems: design patterns to foster participant activity”. eLearning Papers. 2015.”
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THANK YOU
Mohammad
Khalil
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“A
STEM
MOOC
for
School
Children
–
What
does
Learning
Analy<cs
Tell
us?”,
By
Mohammad
Khalil
&
Mar<n
Ebner,
Graz
University
of
Technology,
ICL-­‐2015,
Florence
Mar2n
Ebner
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