Presentation for International Conference on Education and Distance Learning on

1. College Student Feedback on Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs) and Flipped Classrooms
International Conference on Education and Distance Learning (ICEDL) 2018
Nice, France, Paper EDL014-A
Dr. Kristin Palmer – kristin@virginia.edu
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2. Who am I?
• Kristin Palmer is the Director of Online Learning Programs at the
University of Virginia
• Twitter: @kpatwork
• LinkedIn: Dr. Kristin Palmer
• Email: kristin@virginia.edu

3. UVA:
1819, TJ,
12 schools, innovation
and change

4. The Modern World
• World history
• Flip the classroom
• 96 lectures online
• 4 papers face to face
• 1 large lecture/week
• 1 small seminar with TA/week

5. Method
• HIST 2002 taught by Philip Zelikow
• 50 to 100 students each fall semester
• Coursera private group, grade exports
• Mixed method study using Google Forms
• Likert Scale and Open Ended Questions
• 14 Questions, n = 118

6. Survey Data
2012-2016

7. Survey Data
2017

11. Findings
•Students value watching the course videos and being
able to take the online quizzes repeatedly to gain
mastery
•There is a significant time commitment outside of class
•Online is convenient
•Students prefer the flipped format
•Clickstream data suggests no student watches all the
course videos

12. Recommendations
Use online content and know students won’t watch it all
Use face to face time to do what you can not do online

13. Merci!