As always, the sample size is too small to draw quantitative conclusions, but I'm so happy to be reading MOOC research from Russia I'll overlook it for now. This study (13 page PDF) offers a MOOC to a control group "in the traditional way", ie., as an xMOOC, and one to an experimental group adding "collaborative learning and decision-making assignments" in an effort to increase engagement. As the diagram shows, it experiment certainly worked for this group. My feeling is that these enhancements would work in general, which is why we included them in the cMOOC, but of course a much wider and standardized study would be required to confirm this. Meanwhile, if anyone has information about good sources for e-learning news in Russia, please let me know.
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