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<p>As an online and offline teaching mode, small private online courses (SPOC) are widely used in higher education. There is an urgent need in education today to identify the factors that affect the effectiveness of teaching SPOC and to develop strategies to improve the effectiveness of teaching. To enhance the teaching effectiveness of SPOC, this study compares and analyses the factors affecting the teaching effectiveness of SPOC from three perspectives, namely, students’ learning abilities, teachers’ teaching strategies and the classroom learning atmosphere. Following that, a structural equation model (SEM) is used to construct an analysis paradigm of relevant variables and a SEM affecting the effectiveness of SPOC, and six hypotheses were formulated. A survey of the SPOC ‘Aviation Broadcasting’ conducted by the students who enrolled in the School of Zhengzhou Aviation Industry Management College in China served as an example to verify the hypotheses proposed in this paper and provide suggestions for improving the teaching effectiveness of the SPOC through questionnaire research, SPSS analysis and AMOS calculation. Researchers have found that the most influential factor for the teaching effect of SPOC is learning ability of students, followed by teaching design of teachers and classroom learning atmosphere. Based on the research findings, the teaching effect of SPOC can be improved theoretically and practically. The findings of the study provide a reference for decision-making to improve the curriculum effectiveness formulation of SPOC in higher education.</p>
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As an online and offline teaching mode, small private online courses (SPOC) are widely used in higher education. There is an urgent need in education today to identify the factors that affect the effectiveness of teaching SPOC and to develop strategies to improve the effectiveness of teaching. To enhance the teaching effectiveness of SPOC, this study compares and analyses the factors affecting the teaching effectiveness of SPOC from three perspectives, namely, students’ learning abilities, teachers’ teaching strategies and the classroom learning atmosphere. Following that, a structural equation model (SEM) is used to construct an analysis paradigm of relevant variables and a SEM affecting the effectiveness of SPOC, and six hypotheses were formulated. A survey of the SPOC ‘Aviation Broadcasting’ conducted by the students who enrolled in the School of Zhengzhou Aviation Industry Management College in China served as an example to verify the hypotheses proposed in this paper and provide suggestions for improving the teaching effectiveness of the SPOC through questionnaire research, SPSS analysis and AMOS calculation. Researchers have found that the most influential factor for the teaching effect of SPOC is learning ability of students, followed by teaching design of teachers and classroom learning atmosphere. Based on the research findings, the teaching effect of SPOC can be improved theoretically and practically. The findings of the study provide a reference for decision-making to improve the curriculum effectiveness formulation of SPOC in higher education.

Analysis of influencing factors of SPOC course teaching effect using structural equation modelling

School of Civil Aviation, Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics

Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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As an online and offline teaching mode, small private online courses (SPOC) are widely used in higher education. There is an urgent need in education today to...

Analysis of influencing factors of SPOC course teaching effect using structural equation modelling

Online veröffentlicht: 12. Dez. 2022

Seitenbereich: 2605 - 2616

Eingereicht: 09. Juni 2022

Akzeptiert: 19. Nov. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.2.00314

Schlüsselwörter
SPOC courses, teaching effectiveness, structural equation modelling, course effectiveness enhancement

© 2023 Meng Wang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Analysis of influencing factors of SPOC course teaching effect using structural equation modelling

Online veröffentlicht: 12. Dez. 2022

Seitenbereich: 2605 - 2616

Eingereicht: 09. Juni 2022

Akzeptiert: 19. Nov. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.2.00314

SchlüsselwörterSPOC courses, teaching effectiveness, structural equation modelling, course effectiveness enhancement

© 2023 Meng Wang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Schlüsselwörter
SPOC courses, teaching effectiveness, structural equation modelling, course effectiveness enhancement