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
Reach Research Recirculation
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN READINGREADINGREADINGREADING ASSESSMENTREADING GROUP B GROUP A
RESULTS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE ON: MINI COURSE CERTIFICATION RATE MODULE ASSESSMENT CORRECT ANSWER RATES READING COMPREHENSIVE QUESTION CORRECT ANSWER RATES GROUPA (THREE SEGMENTS)B (TEN SEGMENTS) NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO OPENED READING MEAN TOTAL TIME SPENT (SECS) MEDIAN TOTAL TIME SPENT (SECS) FRACTION WHO VIEWED ALL SECTIONS
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