Designing Learner Centric MOOC

MOOC Learner Behaviors by Country and Culture; an Exploratory Analysis

The advent of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) has led to the availability of large educational datasets collected from diverse international audiences. Little work has been done on the impact of cultural and geographic factors on student performance in MOOCs. In this paper, we analyze national and cultural differences in students’ performance in a large-scale MOOC. We situate our analysis i...

Linking MOOC courseware to accommodate diverse learner backgrounds

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) brings great opportunities to millions of learners. However, the size of the learner population and the heterogeneity of the learners' backgrounds make conventional one-size-fits-all pedagogy insufficient. For example, learners lacking in prior knowledge may struggle with different concepts. In this paper, we propose a framework educational content linking, t...

Merging MOOC and mLearning for Increased Learner Interactions

In this paper, the authors suggest the merger of the Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) format and mobile learning (mLearning) based on mutual affordances of both contemporary learning/teaching formats to investigate learner interactions and dialogues in an open online course. The paper presents a case study of how MobiMOOC, a course created using the MOOC format, demonstrates the synergistic ...

Designing a Virtual Laboratory for a Relational Database MOOC

Technical advances in machine and system virtualization are creating opportunities for remote learning to provide significantly better support for active education approaches. Students now, in general, have personal computers that are powerful enough to support virtualization of operating systems and networks. As a consequence, it is now possible to provide remote learners with a common, standa...

Designing Learner Models for Intelligent Language Tutors