Do MOOC students come back for more? Recurring Students in the GdP MOOC

François Bouchet (1) , Rémi Bachelet

1 MOCAH - Modèles et Outils en ingénierie des Connaissances pour l'Apprentissage Humain

Today, most students enrolling in a MOOC already have attended to another MOOC before. We study here a subcategory of these students, who register to the same MOOC several times, which we call Recurring Students (RS). Using data collected during three 5-week sessions of the GdP MOOC (N {\textgreater} 14,000 on average per session), we show there is a significant and increasing proportion (over 10%) of RS. While their re-enrollment seems influenced by changes in course content, they succeed in the same proportions or less than new students (NS). A more granular analysis, separating RS who had previously completed a track (Recurring Successful Students - RSS) from those who hadn’t (Recurring Unsuccessful Students - RUS), reveals that RUS complete the new session in the same proportion as NS, whereas RSS fail more. As a conclusion, we propose recommendations to address these students, which could be valuable for other multiple-session MOOCs.

Mots clés: Massive Open Online Courses MOOC; recurring student; returning student; Massive open online courses; MOOC

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain

François Bouchet, Rémi Bachelet. Do MOOC students come back for more? Recurring Students in the GdP MOOC. The European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit 2015, May 2015, Mons, Belgium. pp.174--182. ⟨hal-01340611⟩