Emotional and Social Engagement in a Massive Open Online Course: An examination of Dino 101
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Broadly defined as the connection between the learner and his or her learning, student engagement is a motivational construct involving behavioral, cognitive, emotional (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, & Paris, 2004) and social (Klassen, Yerdelen, & Durksen, 2013) components. Although all four components of engagement have been linked to greater effort, persistence, enjoyment, interest, and achievement (e.g., Fredricks et al., 2004), emotional and social engagement may be particularly influential in the massive open online course (MOOC) environment because literally tens of thousands of people participate resulting in countless opportunities for both pleasant and unpleasant emotions and social connections. In this chapter we use quantitative and qualitative data to describe MOOC learners’ emotional and social engagement, pointing out places of convergence and divergence with theory.
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