An Analysis of Online Learning Behaviors and Its Influencing Factors:A Case Study of Students' Learning Process in Online Course "Open Education Learning Guide" in the Open University of China

According to the yearly online instruction examinations by the Open University of China and several online colleges,the time students spend on online learning is low in general.As existing research shows,two important external factors of digital resources and learning support service can influence students' learning time in online learning.In this paper,the author describes behavior characteristics of online learning which has low learning time input,and analyzes the internal factors influencing online learning time input through data mining.The author chose an online course "Open Education Learning Guide" learning process for the case study,collected the logging data,resource visiting data and formative tests data and discovered some basic online learning behavior characteristics and its influencing factors.