The Impact of Mobile Learning on Students' Self-Test Behavior in MOOCs

Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale Pub Date : 2021-06-08 DOI:10.1145/3430895.3460151

Max Bothe, C. Meinel

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Students can use personal mobile devices to access Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in addition to desktop computers. However, user interfaces are often only scaled to smaller screen sizes and interaction patterns of a desktop learning experience do not always fit well with the characteristics of mobile devices. Adequate solutions for answering self-test questions on mobile devices often do not exist. In this paper, we explore the currently shown interaction patterns of MOOC learners when answering self-tests to make an informed decision about the requirements for the appropriate solution on mobile devices. The students' context was categorized into Desktop Web, Mobile Web, and Mobile Application. In an observational case study, the interaction events of two courses were analyzed regarding these device groups. Desktop Web is the most used environment. No practical differences between device groups were identified for subsequent attempts. Learners stick to a single device group and often only participate once in a self-test. Also, learners using mobile applications spend more time submitting self-tests.

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移动学习对mooc学生自测行为的影响

除了台式电脑，学生还可以使用个人移动设备访问大规模开放在线课程(MOOCs)。然而，用户界面通常只能缩放到较小的屏幕尺寸，桌面学习体验的交互模式并不总是与移动设备的特性很好地匹配。在移动设备上回答自测问题的适当解决方案往往不存在。在本文中，我们探讨了MOOC学习者在回答自我测试时当前显示的交互模式，以便对移动设备上适当解决方案的要求做出明智的决定。学生的环境被分为桌面网络、移动网络和移动应用。在一个观察性案例研究中，我们分析了两个疗程中有关这些设备组的相互作用事件。桌面Web是最常用的环境。在随后的尝试中，没有发现设备组之间的实际差异。学习者坚持使用单一设备组，通常只参加一次自测。此外，使用移动应用程序的学习者花费更多时间提交自测。

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