Research Contract: Understanding the Relationship Between Social Community Formation and Progression within MOOC Environments

We are continuing our collaborative research relationship with Google Australia through a new research contract supporting us in a deep data analysis of our community-based MOOCs, designed to further our analysis into successful MOOC models for professional learning within Computer Science.

Research Contract: Understanding the Relationship Between Social Community Formation and Progression within MOOC Environments, Google Australia, $37,697 (2017)

K. Falkner, R. Vivian and T. Atapattu, Understanding the relationship between social community formation and progression within MOOC environments, Research Contract, Google Australia, $37,687 (2017).

This project will support the next stage in the collaborative research arrangement between the University of Adelaide and Google Australia to support the design and development of effective online learning environments for teacher professional development.

This project will support the analysis of data collected over two years of our collaborative MOOC projects to better understand and explore the relationship between social community formation and course engagement, activity and progression. This analysis will explore a detailed dataset of 1,800 teachers including community interactions (contributions, comments, likes) and teacher participation (lesson participation, lesson completion, video engagement, overall completion) along with the related timing of such interactions.

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