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Massive Open Online Courses For Professional Certificate Programs? Perspectives On Professional Learners’ Longitudinal Participation Patterns, Hengtao Tang Ph.D., Wanli Xing
Massive Open Online Courses For Professional Certificate Programs? Perspectives On Professional Learners’ Longitudinal Participation Patterns, Hengtao Tang Ph.D., Wanli Xing
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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been integrated into higher education systems as an option for delivering online professional degree and certificate programs; however, concerns about whether employed professionals actively participate in MOOCs remain unresolved. Some researchers have described learners’ employment as the major cause of attrition from MOOCs, but research has not addressed how employed learners interact with MOOCs over time. Understanding employed professionals’ trajectory of participation patterns across course time is thus essential to improving the effectiveness of MOOCs. This study investigated the log data of learner participation to explore how attrition occurs in a professional MOOC, focusing …
Improving K-12 Teachers’ Acceptance Of Open Educational Resources By Open Educational Practices: A Mixed Methods Inquiry, Hengtao Tang, Yu-Ju Lin, Yingxiao Qian
Improving K-12 Teachers’ Acceptance Of Open Educational Resources By Open Educational Practices: A Mixed Methods Inquiry, Hengtao Tang, Yu-Ju Lin, Yingxiao Qian
Faculty Publications
Teachers in K-12 settings increasingly demand instructional materials beyond textbooks to follow the upward momentum of personalized instruction. Especially during the outbreak of COVID-19, K-12 teachers are forced to quickly adapt to online teaching and thus have more difficulties of delivering personalized instruction in a relatively resource-restraint situation. Open educational resources (OER), allowing teachers to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute high-quality educational resources at no costs, can be a viable option for teachers. However, the acceptance of OER in K-12 education still remains low. Effective strategies are needed to reinforce teacher intention to adopt OER. This research showcased a …
Latent Class Analysis Of K-12 Teachers’ Barriers To Implementing Oer, Hengtao Tang Ph.D., Yu Bao
Latent Class Analysis Of K-12 Teachers’ Barriers To Implementing Oer, Hengtao Tang Ph.D., Yu Bao
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Open educational resources (OER) are a cost-effective alternative to traditional textbooks for K-12 teachers to provide differentiated instruction at a much lower cost. However, teachers have to overcome barriers to implement OER in their classrooms, especially if cultural and economic factors are considered. To help each teacher overcome individual barriers, a person-centered approach to understand teachers’ barriers of implementing OER is needed yet absent. This research thus filled the gap by conducting a latent class analysis of teachers’ profiles in terms of their barriers in using OER. The findings identified three types of teacher profiles and revealed how different profiles …