Students' Patterns of Engagement and Course Performance in Cloud-Classroom Courses

Abstract

In this paper, we study the public elementary course "software engineering" which is based on the StarC platform. StarC is a teaching service platform developed by Central China Normal University. It is one part of national education cloud platform. This paper reports on the relationships between students' patterns of engagement and their course performance. The results indicate that students' participation is positively correlated with their final academic performance. So is students' effective learning time with their final performance. By using questionnaire, interview and results comparison, we found that the cloud classroom teaching is better than the traditional classroom teaching in the aspects of student's participation, satisfaction and learning gain.