Influence of MOOC learners discussion forum social interactions on online reviews of MOOC

Thread Structure Prediction for MOOC Discussion Forum

Discussion forums are an indispensable interactive component for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). However, the organization of current discussion forums is not well-designed. Trouble-shooting threads are valuable for both learners and instructors, but they are drowned out in the forums with huge amounts of threads. This work first built a labeled data set for trouble-shooting thread structur...

Mining for Confusion: Classifying Affect in MOOC Learners’ Discussion Forum Posts

Interest in educational data mining (EDM) has grown exponentially in recent years [5]. The Journal of Educational Data Mining was established to accommodate the surge in EDM research activity; in the following years, Learning at Scale and the International Conference on Learning Analytics cropped up as well. Broadly, EDM ”is concerned with methods to explore unique types of data in educational ...

an Investigation of Factors Affecting Utilization of MOOC from the perspective of R MOOC learners

An Analysis of MOOC Discussion Forum Interactions from the Most Active Users

Many massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer mainly videobased lectures, which limits the opportunity for interactions and communications among students and instructors. Thus, the discussion forums of MOOC become indispensable in providing a platform for facilitating interactions and communications. In this research, discussion forum users who continually and actively participate in the forum...

Semi-automatic annotation of MOOC forum posts

Massive online open courses’ (MOOCs’) students who use discussion forums have higher chances of finishing the course. However, little research has been conducted for understanding the underlying factors. One of the reasons which hinders the analysis is the amount of manual work required for annotating posts. In this paper we use machine learning techniques to extrapolate small set of annotation...