Participation Agreement

Please read this agreement carefully and agree with the terms and conditions before completing your registration. The agreements are as follow:

1. Participation in this course is a part of the study titled “Personalising and Socialising Language MOOC: Develop a SPOLC”. The study aims to investigate how the course design focusing on personalization and social interaction affects the completion rate and learning experience of students learning in a Language MOOC. The results of research will contribute to the understanding of how people learn language in a MOOC and will inform future Language MOOC designers about what factors contribute to completions, drop-outs, good and bad learning experiences in an LMOOC.

2. The course lasts for 4 weeks between March and April 2019. You will complete a series of learning exercises throughout the course. You will be asked to create your profile, complete their self-evaluation questionnaires, upload your presentation videos, comment on and rate other participants’ videos. Also, you are presented with personalised learning plans which you can either choose to follow or not to follow. You will learn the materials available to you in the course. Here, there is no restriction of how you will learn and you can choose to engage with the materials in any ways that they you.

3. All of the data you generate within the course will be used for the analysis. You will be asked to complete the questionnaires at the end of the course. The questionnaire will take around 10 minutes to complete. The questions in the questionnaires will concern your learning experiences in the course and it will be in the form of 5-point Likert Scale.

4. You can be certain that participating or not participating in this research will in no way affect your evaluation at your workplaces or your grades at your institutions.

5. Researcher Guarantee: Data collected under the purposes of this study will be used primarily for this research, but may be shared with other researchers in anonymised form. Confidentiality will be respected and no information that discloses the identity of the participant will be released or published without consent unless required by law.

Note: I understand that I am being asked to participate in this study and that my participation is voluntary. I understand that I can withdraw from this study at any time. I hereby consent to participate in the study.