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Student Personality Characteristics Differ in MOOCs Versus Blended-Learning University Courses

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  • Ada Le

    (Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada)

  • Cho Kin Cheng

    (Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada)

  • Steve Joordens

    (Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada)

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This article conveys how online technology in education has become increasingly popular, especially blended-learning and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Although, research to date on blended-learning and MOOCs have revealed various factors that contribute to student success; however, systematic research on the personality characteristics of the learner, and how this could affect course performance remains sparse. This article is based off of the authors survey of students in a MOOC and a blended-learning course in Introductory Psychology about various personality characteristics that they believed could influence course performance. The results indicate that students in the MOOC versus blended-learning course exhibit different personality traits, and that these traits are associated with MOOC but not blended-learning course performance. These findings have important implications for fine tuning online teaching techniques to the personality types of the learners, which could improve course performance.

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  • Ada Le & Cho Kin Cheng & Steve Joordens, 2018. "Student Personality Characteristics Differ in MOOCs Versus Blended-Learning University Courses," International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD), IGI Global, vol. 8(2), pages 16-28, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jopcd0:v:8:y:2018:i:2:p:16-28
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