What Drives Enrollment in Massive Open Online Courses?
- The goal of this paper is to study the demand factors driving enrollment in massive open online courses. Using course level data from a French MOOC platform, we study the course, teacher and institution related characteristics that influence the enrollment decision of students, in a setting where enrollment is open to all students without administrative barriers. Coverage from social and traditional media done around the course is a key driver. In addition, the language of instruction and the (estimated) amount of work needed to complete the course also have a significant impact. The data also suggests that the presence of same-side externalities is limited. Finally, preferences of national and of international students tend to differ on several dimensions.
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| Author details: | Julien Jacqmin |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-516899 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-51689 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-86956-512-5 |
| Title of parent work (English): | EMOOCs 2021 |
| Subtitle (English): | Evidences from a French MOOC Platform |
| Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/06/30 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Publishing institution: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2021/09/20 |
| Volume: | 2021 |
| Number of pages: | 16 |
| First page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 16 |
| RVK - Regensburg classification: | ST 670 |
| Organizational units: | Digital Engineering Fakultät / Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering GmbH |
| DDC classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Open Access / Gold Open-Access | |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Sammelwerke (nicht fortlaufend) / EMOOCs 2021 / Beiträge |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
