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Predictors Of Students’ Achievement In A Blended Learning Course, Xingyu Zhou, Cindy (Xin) Chen, Casey Smith, Jennifer Deboer Aug 2015

Predictors Of Students’ Achievement In A Blended Learning Course, Xingyu Zhou, Cindy (Xin) Chen, Casey Smith, Jennifer Deboer

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been at the center of media attention and hyperbole since 2012. Physics I: Classical Mechanics was a physics course offered by an elite private university in the northeastern United States in the fall of 2014. This course was offered in a blended learning format using a MOOC platform. There were 476 students enrolled in the course, but only 266 of them completed the course. In order to better understand the behavior and academic performance of students in this course, several mathematical models were used to examine the relationship between their grades and their use …