This short paper looks at activity patterns in corporate MOOCs, and in particular, patters in transitions from one type of activity to another among four activity types: learning, discussion, reviewing progress, and announcements. The most significant result is that while there are numerous transitions between the latter three, the first activity - learning - occurs in isolation. Now it seems to me that these categories are poorly defined - 'learning', for example, consists of "video playbacks, self-test submissions, visits to learning items". Why wouldn't these be considered as separate activity types? There's a lot of data (from13 MOOCs with n=72,668 learners) so obviously more detailed analysis could be done. In any event, the use of a transition analysis is interesting even if it's uninformative at this stage.
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