SLIDES - Presentation by Lucie Dhorne The past few years have seen an exponential growth of the number of MOOCs worldwide. However, it is proven by the avaivalable completion rate data that motivation can quickly fade even for students who are highly motivated at the beginning of the courses. Faced with this realty, it seems crucial for the future of MOOCs to adress this motivational issue and to find ways to improve the completion rates. IFP School launched two MOOCs – “Sustainable Mobility” and “Oil&Gas” – which saw unusally high completion rates. In this paper we analyze the results obtained within these two MOOCs. Our goal is to identify the factors that made such completion rates possible and to understand how these key issues help to produce a succesful MOOC. By this analysis, we are able to give some tips in terms of video recording, interactive assignment design such as Serious Game or Mini-games and participant mentoring to promote motivation. Applying these tips when designing a MOOC will minimize the chance of participant withdrawal and thus lead to high completion rates.

1. How to improve completion rates in a MOOC ?
EMOOC 2016 – 22/24 February 2016

2. CONTENT
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Lucie DHORNE
• Context – IFP School
• MOOC Objectives - Characteristics - Results
• How to improve completion rates in a MOOC?
• Perspectives and outcomes

3. INNOVATIVE TEACHING METHODS
CONTEXT
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IFP SCHOOL – APPLIED SCHOOL
 Applied graduate programs
 Students and young professionals
 Energy and transport sectors
 350 students, 50% from outside France, 50 nationalities
 Skills based approach
 Instructional design
2 MOOCs

4. MOOC OBJECTIVES
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INNOVATION
 Skills development
 Integration inside our masters
 National and international
RECRUITMENT
INSTITUTIONAL VISIBILITY
 Attract students/engineers from all over the world

5. CONTENT
• 28 videos / 11 forums
MOOC CHARACTERISTICS
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY – NOV. 2014
EVALUATION
• 3 serious games
• 3 quizzes
• 1 peer-to-peer
RESULTS
• 3099 enrolled participants
• Average age: 25 years
•• 31% completion rate
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6. MOOC CHARACTERISTICS Serious
Game
Refinery
simulator
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY – NOV. 2014
• Realistic
environnment
• Solve problems they
would face in the real
industry
• Develop skills linked
to the industry
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7. CONTENT
• 31 videos / 10 forums
MOOC CHARACTERISTICS
OIL & GAS – MARCH 2015
RESULTS
• 21840 enrolled participants
• Average age: 27 years
EVALUATION
• 15 mini-games
• 1 quiz
• Interactive video
• 28% completion rate
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8. MOOC CHARACTERISTICS
OIL & GAS – MARCH 2015
Mini
games
• Improved quiz with
colorfull interface
• Focus pedagogical
approach into a job
approach
• Discover how the
whole oil and gas
industry works
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9. ATYPICAL RESULTS
Source of the initial graphic : http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject
Average MOOC completion rates = 15%
MOOC Sustainable Mobility - 31%
MOOC Oil & Gas - 28%

10. HOW TO IMPROVE COMPLETION RATES ?
TARGET AUDIENCE
 Language of the MOOC
 Duration
 Assignment design
 Format of the videos
4 Weeks
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11. HOW TO IMPROVE COMPLETION RATES ?
ASSIGNMENTS DESIGN
 Develop an environment where students can experiment
and practice the skills learnt from lessons
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53%
“Learning by doing!”
43%
96% used the serious games and found the activities
interesting

12. HOW TO IMPROVE COMPLETION RATES ?
ASSIGNMENTS DESIGN
 Serious games as motivation tools
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Which activities and
topics in the MOOC
were the most
enjoyable or fruitful ?
(open answer)

13. HOW TO IMPROVE COMPLETION RATES ?
VIDEO FORMAT
 MIT produced a study that showed that the shorter videos
produced an higher involvment
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• Analysis of our 59 videos
• Duration time 4-17min
• Viewing Rate (VR)
Average viewing time
Total length of a video

14. PERSPECTIVES
HOW TO PROGRESS FROM HERE ?
 MENTORING STUDENTS
• In our two first MOOCs 80% of the participants were
doing a MOOC for the first time
Four mentor profiles Mentoring during W0
Planning
assistance
What is a
MOOC?
#hashtag
& the rest of the MOOC

15. CONTENT
• 31 videos / 9 forums
OUTCOMES
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY – NOV. 2015
EVALUATION
• 4 serious games
• 3 quizzes
• 1 peer-to-peer
RESULTS
• 5205 enrolled participants
• Median age: 26 years
• 32% completion rate
+67%
+1%

16. lucie.dhorne@ifpen.fr
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