What influences college students to drop out of MOOC: A Study Based on Grounded Theory

MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses), as a new online education resource and course form, has attracted attention from all sides in recent years, and its development trend is rapid. More and more users are choosing to study online courses, with college students being the mainstream of MOOCs. However, the interference and challenges of college students' online learning are also increasing, and the phenomenon of high dropout rate leads to the poor learning effect and learning experience of college students' online learning. Therefore, this study adopts the grounded theory research method, obtains data through in-depth interviews, and forms a model of influencing factors of college students' MOOC dropout behavior through open-axial-selective three-level coding based on bottom- up induction, and expounds the influence of various factors such as learners, courses, teachers and environment on college students' MOOC dropout behavior. It provides an important theoretical support for people to objectively understand the dropout behavior of college students in MOOC learning and reduce the dropout rate of college students in MOOC learning.