This presentation is a high-level overview of survey and clickstream data examining residential student behavior in massive open online courses (MOOCs). Data was collected in 2014-2015.

1. What Do Residential College Students
Think and Do with Massive Open
Online Courses (MOOCs)?
Dr. Kristin Olson Palmer
Director of Online Learning Programs
University of Virginia
The Eighth Asian Conference on Education (ACE2016)
Submission 33119

2. What is a residential
college student?

3. What is a massive open
online course (MOOC)?

4. How do we measure
what students are
thinking and doing?

5. Online Survey
Clickstream Analysis

6. Students cite ease of use and
convenience as what they liked most.

7. The time commitment is what
students liked least.

8. Students want face-to-face classes.

9. Students want more class
materials available online.

10. Clickstream Data
Video views and downloads
Quiz behavior
Discussion forums participation

11. Students
completed
whatever was
specifically
required as part
of the course
grade.

12. A majority of the students watched
some of the course videos.
No one watched all.

13. If students take the quizzes,
most likely they take them
multiple times.

14. Thank You!
@kpatwork
Dr. Kristin Olson Palmer on LinkedIn