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Table 1 The learning profiles and learning outcomes of medical MOOCs from ‘zhihuishu” platform before and after COVID-19

From: The irreplaceable role of medical massive open online courses in China during the COVID-19 pandemic

Variables

Before 2020

Since 2020

P

Registered learners

2,645 (1,000–6,928)

3,240 (1,058–9,024)

0.038

Registered schools

22 (5–63)

19 (10–62)

0.600

Questions and answers

5,116 (1,105–15,823)

27,005 (5,822–101,117)

0.000

Students participating online discussions

796 (187–1,974)

722 (291–2,590)

0.002

Students taking the unit quiz

1,694 (644–6,240)

1,902 (727–6,918)

0.288

Students taking the final examination

1,995 (648–6,695)

2,782 (882–7,818)

0.014

Students passing the final examination

1,529 (477–5820)

1,885 (620–6,626)

0.183

  1. All the variables were presented as median and inter-quartile range (IQR), and the differences between before 2020 and since 2020 were assessed with the Wilcoxon test