What Makes High School Students Engage in Open Courses – A Pilot Study

Haishuo Lee, Jerry Chih-Yuan Sun, and Yu-Lun Huang

Introduction

DS Stanford Project

Rationale: No Existing Paper Aiming at

the Same Target Group

Research Question: Among all the possible

motivation factors, which will have higher influences over high

school students in their willingness to take MOOCs

courses?

Conclusion

• Self efficacy and course values are both important, and can be supported by the other 4 extrinsic motivation factors

Conclusion

• Self efficacy and computer efficacy can be supported by teacher support

• Course Value could be supported by Language, Department, and Certificate

Application

1. Teacher support is a must, whether in online form or face to face form

2. To increase course value, it would be best to match the course with future major

3. Emphasize the certificate to increase course value

4. Incorporate language learning process to further increase course value

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