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Toward a Typology of MOOC Activity Patterns

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This paper aims at understanding MOOC learners’ activity patterns, taking into account factors like personal schedule, traditional working hours, domestic time, nighttime and their relation with MOOC course opening hours, live sessions, essay submission deadlines… Are MOOC learners adopting nonstandard learning schedules? Does the MOOC schedule determine the connection patterns of the learners? Four search topics and findings emerge from our research A/Observations related to the density of learning activity B/A weekly typology of learning days, C/Attraction for a “live” contact point, D/The “21:00 effect”. Finally, we suggest a series of best practices for MOOC design.

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  1. Centrale Lille, 59651, Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France

    Rémi Bachelet

  2. Université Lumière Lyon 2, ISPEF, ECP, 69365, Lyon Cedex 07, France

    Rawad Chaker

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  1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

    Carlos Delgado Kloos

  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Patrick Jermann

  3. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, San Joaquín, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Mar Pérez-Sanagustín

  4. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel T. Seaton

  5. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Su White

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Bachelet, R., Chaker, R. (2017). Toward a Typology of MOOC Activity Patterns. In: Delgado Kloos, C., Jermann, P., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Seaton, D., White, S. (eds) Digital Education: Out to the World and Back to the Campus. EMOOCs 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10254. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59044-8_15

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