an investigation on optimal text length for moocs tiffany wong & meghan morrissey
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An Investigation on Optimal Text Length
for MOOCs
Tiffany Wong & Meghan Morrissey
MOTIVATION
• IMPORTANCE OF READINGS FOR HUMANITY COURSES
• LACK OF RESEARCH ON THE EFFECT OF TEXT LENGTH ON LEARNING IN AN ONLINE CONTEXT
• RESEARCH INFORMED PRACTICE
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
READINGREADING READINGREADING READINGREADING READINGREADING
ASSESSMENTASSESSMENT
READINGREADING
GROUP BGROUP B
GROUP AGROUP A
RESULTS• NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE ON:
• MINI COURSE CERTIFICATION RATE
• MODULE ASSESSMENT CORRECT ANSWER RATES
• READING COMPREHENSIVE QUESTION CORRECT ANSWER RATES
GROUP A (THREE SEGMENTS) B (TEN SEGMENTS)
NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO OPENED READING 603 703
MEAN TOTAL TIME SPENT (SECS) 436.47 599.97
MEDIAN TOTAL TIME SPENT (SECS) 92.51 189.97
FRACTION WHO VIEWED ALL SECTIONS 0.514 0.256
RECOMMENDATIONS
• MORE RESEARCH (REPLICATE DESIGN) AND COLLABORATION