The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on a MOOC in Aerospace Structures and Materials

Conference paper (2021)

Authors

I. Jivet Web Information Systems - EEMCS
Gillian Saunders-Smits Robot Dynamics - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering , Aerospace Structures & Materials
Department
Aerospace Structures & Materials
Copyright: © 2021 I. Jivet, Gillian Saunders-Smits
Aerospace Engineering MOOC Learning Analytics Methods Formats and essential elements for online/blended learning Social aspects and communication in online/blended learning Lifelong Learning
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Published Date

2021

Language

English

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Department

Aerospace Structures & Materials

Abstract

In March 2020 COVID-19 brought the world and with that aviation to a standstill. Also in March 2020, the third run of the DelftX MOOC Introduction to Aerospace
Structures and Materials started on edX. This MOOC generally attracts a mixture of young aviation enthusiasts (often students) and aviation professionals. Given the large interest MOOCs have received as the pandemic hit, we investigate how the new global context affected the motivation and the way learners interact with our course material. For this project, we will use learning analytics approaches to
analyse the log data available from the edX platform and the data from pre- and
post-course evaluations of two runs of the same MOOC (2019 and 2020).
With the insights gathered through this analysis, we wish to better understand our learners and adjust the learning design of the course to better suit their needs. Our paper will present the first insights of this analysis.