This is quite a good paper offered as part of a "festschrift dedicated to celebrating the research and life of Jim Greer (more)." The authors conduct an analysis of the learning tactics and strategies used by students in courses, and especially MOOCs, association with their success in those courses, and with the learning design employed by those courses. In a nutshell (and I'm skipping a lot here) some learning tactics are more conducive to success, and course design can influence the selection of those tactics. My feeling though is that a lot of the work in this paper is devoted to identifying and classifying learning tactics and related phenomena. So any statement about the relation between learning tactics, success and design depends crucially on these classifications. But it's hard to shake the feeling that the classifications are arbitrary - for example, choosing between "watching the video" and "taking the test" may seem to genuinely classify learning tactics, but these are tactics that wouldn't exist outside the structure of a previously defined course. Still, don't miss this paper.
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