Gies College of Business

Study: Sharing course-related ideas key to online learner engagement

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May 3, 2021 Business Administration Faculty Research


A new research project coauthored by Gies College of Business faculty Unnati Narang and Aric Rindfleisch proposes and empirically tests a novel approach for creating engagement in online learning platforms.

Online learning platforms have expanded rapidly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Coursera, the world’s largest massive open online course (MOOC) platform has added more than 21 million learners since April 2020. However, learner engagement remains rather low with less than 10% completion rates and fewer than 5% of learners participating in course discussion forums.

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