The MOOC Spring

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

The Post-MOOC World

We’ve become so accustomed to the cycle of hype that we apply it to every new innovation without thinking. We expect all new technologies to be swept upward on a wave of emotion, only to fall to earth when the hype wears o . By reducing innovation to a stereotype, we overlook the new ideas that each innovation can bring. A recent swing in the cycle of hype began in 2011, when massive open onlin...

Describing MOOC-based Hybrid initiatives: The H-MOOC Framework

Several studies have described different hybrid initiatives to integrate MOOCs into traditional higher education. Most of these studies have partially documented students’ perception on hybrid initiatives, measuring course satisfaction among other metrics. Few researchers have reported institutional efforts implied in implementing hybrid initiatives and their benefits from a curriculum perspect...

MOOC - The educational revolution of the century

The New York Times declared 2012 as the year of the Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). This also proves that MOOC is the latest and the most successful development in online education. These online courses are designed for large-scale participation, freely available with free access to all course materials, available through any web browser on any mobile device or computer The talk summarizes ...

Modeling MOOC Dropouts

In this project, we model MOOC dropouts using user activity data. We have several rounds of feature engineering and generate features like activity counts, percentage of visited course objects, and session counts to model this problem. We apply logistic regression, support vector machine, gradient boosting decision trees, AdaBoost, and random forest to this classification problem. Our best mode...