Collaborative and social engagement promote active learning through knowledge intensive interactions. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are dynamic and diversified learning spaces with varying factors like flexible time frames, student count, demographics requiring higher engagement and motivation to continue learning and for designers to implement novel pedagogies including collaborative lea...

Advances in computing technologies are revolutionising education. Specifically, advances in Human-Computer Interaction impact the media and methods of delivery, facilitating a conceptual shift from traditional face-to-face instruction towards a paradigm with delivery increasingly tailored to student needs. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers have now the possibility to both predict and ...

Video lessons are increasingly adopted in education, especially in universities and lifelong learning projects. Their popularity is due to the people's familiarity with video and to other intrinsic characteristics of this medium, such as the message rapidity and its reproducibility. Accordingly, Massive Open Online Courses are gaining a prominent role in both formal and informal education and m...

Vortrag in der Reihe „E-Learning“ im SoSe 2014 an der Universität Ulm 
 Handout zum Vortrag ! Das Audience Response System ARSnova (https://arsnova.eu), didaktisch konzipiert und als HTML5-App an der THM entwickelt, unterstützt die Aktivierung der Studierenden in Präsenz-Lehrveranstaltungen und „Massive Open Online Courses“ (MOOC). Einerseits umfasst ARSnova die Funktionalität eines mobilen TED...

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...

In a technology-fueled world, coding is an essential skill for young people. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), which are free online courses available to a very large number of people, are an effective and increasingly popular option for teaching scientific topics to a worldwide audience. However, despite the large number of MOOCs available on computer science, there is a scarcity of coding-...

In this paper we explore how to import intelligent support for group learning that has been demonstrated as effective in classroom instruction into a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) context. The Bazaar agent architecture paired with an innovative Lobby tool to enable coordination for synchronous reflection exercises provides a technical foundation for our work. We describe lessons learned, di...

 Should the classroom be flipped using online video [1]?  Can textbooks be replaced by open educational resources [2, 3]?  What can children learn online on their own, and how can their families help?  Can student advancement in school be tied to competence instead of cohort?  Can a professor effectively teach 10,000 students at once in a MOOC [4-6]?  Are automated assessments as good as ...

Large carnivores face serious threats and are experiencing massive declines in their populations and geographic ranges around the world. We highlight how these threats have affected the conservation status and ecological functioning of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores on Earth. Consistent with theory, empirical studies increasingly show that large carnivores have substantial effects on the s...

Ausgehend von klassischen Dashboards, geht die Entwicklung bei der Darstellung von Learning-Analytics-Ergebnissen hin zu interaktiven Visualisierung, welche die Interpretation und Anwendung der Ergebnisse des maschinellen Lernens oder der Sozialen-Netzwerk-Analyse unterstützen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden zwei visuelle Analysen vorgestellt, welche für das Learning-Analytics-Tool LEMO entw...