The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic of a MOOC in Aerospace Structures and Materials

Описание: This is the presentation of the work of dr. ir. I. Jivet and myself at the 49th Annual SEFI conference held online from 13-16 September 2021 hosted by TU Berlin.

Abstract:
In March 2020 COVID-19 brought the world and with that aviation to a standstill. Also in March 2020, the third run of the DelftX MOOC Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials started on edX. This MOOC generally attracts a mixture of young aviation enthusiasts (often students) and aviation professionals. Given the large interest MOOCs have received as the pandemic hit, we investigate how the new global context affected the motivation and the way learners interact with our course material. For this project, we will use learning analytics approaches to analyse the log data available from the edX platform and the data from pre- and post-course evaluations of two runs of the same MOOC (2019 and 2020).
With the insights gathered through this analysis, we wish to better understand our learners and adjust the learning design of the course to better suit their needs. Our paper will present the first insights of this analysis.

For full paper please see ResearchGate.