Exploring factors for effective use of online information in SPOC within the engineering education

Today's Small Private Online Course (SPOC) environments are mashing different services from public, private, or hybrid clouds, different equipment, different tools, platforms, and learning pedagogies. The aim of this paper is to provide designers, developers, and educators with insights for implementation and utilization of such complex and heterogeneous SPOC frameworks. Factors that impact effective use of online information of designed digital content for engineering courses and successfulness of such systems are examined using SPOC platform at university course. First outcome of this study is fact that learners have used and accepted SPOC platform positively, which is examined using questionnaire. Second, this study as a result identified following important drivers for SPOC platform successfulness: the high quality of information and useful learning contents, easy for use, and social presence support. These drivers lead to learners feel usefulness of the platform and to enjoy in using it. Study also shown that SPOC platform quality is strong related to learners’ perceptions with the system and perceived easy of use.