Presentation delivered at the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning (ICALT) organized by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology. This work was nominated for the best short paper award.

1. Success indicators for
Massive Open Online Courses
BRENDA CECILIA PADILLA RODRIGUEZ
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEON
ICALT, JULY 2020

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Massive Open Online Courses
The technological infrastructure has the potential to support large-scale use (Steward, 2013).
Any person with Internet access can participate for free, without having to meet any strict
pre-requisites (Anderson, 2013).
Delivery is via the Internet.
MOOCs are coherent academic interventions with a defined set of learning outcomes (Youell,
2011), and (usually) start and end dates.
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Massive Open Online Courses
(Shah, 2019)
+900 institutions offer MOOCs
+110 million people study MOOCs

5. Are MOOCs really
successful?
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Completion rates
Tasadefinalización
Figure by Jordan (2015). Available at: http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html
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Reasons to enroll in MOOCs
Discover what
online education
is about.
Study only some
MOOC lessons.
Improve a work-
related skill.
Connect with a
community.
Many more!
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(Alario-Hoyos et al., 2017; Padilla Rodriguez et al., 2015; Wang & Baker, 2015)

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Learner feedback
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(Padilla Rodriguez et al., 2015; Padilla Rodriguez et al., 2016)

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Some issues
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Self-selection bias
Enjoyable ≠
meaningful
Changing views
Perceived learning
≠ actual learning
(Bacon, 2016; Padilla Rodriguez et al., 2017)

10. So what now?
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11. Consider a multi-
stakeholder approach to
measure MOOC success.
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Final thoughts
➢ The list is not yet comprehensive and should be used with caution.
➢ Several questions remain unanswered, such as how and when to
measure the performance of these indicators.
➢ This model highlights the value of a multi-stakeholder approach.
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18. Success indicators for
Massive Open Online Courses
BRENDA CECILIA PADILLA RODRIGUEZ
@BRENDAPADILLA
ICALT, JULY 2020