OER-based Online Micro-courses

Online Courses Recommendation based on LDA

In this paper we propose a course recommendation system based on historical grades of students in college. Our model will be able to recommend available courses in sites such as: Coursera, Udacity, Edx, etc. To do so, probabilistic topic models are used as follows. On one hand, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model infers topics from content given in a college course syllabus. On the ot...

Video-Based Learning and Open Online Courses

In this article, we provide an overview of the emerging research area on Analytics and Video-Based Learning. Although there are many and diverse ways of designing learning videos, there is limited understanding of the efficacy and usefulness of each method. Therefore, we survey the state-of-the-art in the design, development and evaluation of open and video-based courses. The main objective is ...

Massive Open Online Courses

Evaluating Online Courses

Michigan State University Quality Matters: Teaching Tools MSU has a campus subscription to QM. This page provides information for creating a personal QM account in order to make full use of the QM rubric and online resources to create and assess improved online education and student learning. Also offers links to other technology tools for teaching available at MSU. https://tech.msu.edu/teachin...

Massive Open Online Courses

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a new addition to the open educational provision. They are offered mainly by prestigious universities on various commercial and non-commercial MOOC platforms allowing anyone who is interested to experience the world class teaching practiced in these universities. MOOCs have attracted wide interest from around the world. However, learner demographics in MO...