How Knowledge Stock Exchanges can increase student success in Massive Open Online Courses


Autoři: Andreas Heusler aff001;  Dominik Molitor aff002;  Martin Spann aff001
Působiště autorů: Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Institute of Electronic Commerce and Digital Markets, Munich, Germany aff001;  Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, New York, NY, United States of America aff002
Vyšlo v časopise: PLoS ONE 14(9)
Kategorie: Research Article
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223064

Souhrn

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow lecturers to overcome spatiotemporal boundaries and reach large numbers of participants. However, the completion rates of MOOCs are relatively low, a critical obstacle to their ultimate success. Existing literature suggests that strengthening student interaction has the potential to increase student commitment. The goal of this study is to develop a novel, market-based knowledge-sharing method that fosters student engagement and interaction in MOOCs, addressing the problem of low completion rates and demonstrating how MOOC engagement can lead to greater student success. The proposed method, “Knowledge Stock Exchange” (KSX), is derived from the concept of crowd-based intelligence mechanisms for incentive-compatible information aggregation. Using a popular MOOC as the focus of our empirical study, we show that the KSX method increases student interaction as well as MOOC completion rates. Moreover, we find that KSX participation has a significant positive effect on participants’ exam grades.

Klíčová slova:

Finance – Human learning – Intelligence – Learning – Motivation – Supervisors – Stock markets – Social theory


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