Negativity in MOOC: Impacts on Learning and Teaching and How Instructional Teams May Be Able to Address it

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Negativity in Massive Online Open Courses: Impacts on Learning and Teaching and How Instructional Teams May Be Able to Address It
Denise Comer, Ryan Baker, Yuan Wang, InSight : A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, Paperity, 2020/01/01
There is "a considerable amount of negativity in MOOCs," write the authors, "emerging from learners on discussion forums and through peer assessment, from disciplinary colleagues and from public discourse around MOOCs." This article (22 page PDF) looks to analyze it and maybe quantify it a bit. There are two case studies, and these help identify types of negativity (eg., toward the instructor, toward the platform). More...