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...

MOOCs are world-wide online courses with the purpose of open visit and massive participation, which is the newly-booming course model in the global educational field. The article firstly introduces the outline of MOOCs in terms of types, theoretical foundations, features in course models and contents, and then analyzes the impacts of MOOCs on Chinese college English teaching including the quali...

We present the results of an eye-tracking study on a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) lecture showing the relation between gaze variables and students’ performance and learning strategy. 40 students watched a MOOC lecture while their eye-movements were being recorded. We present a method to define stimuli-based gaze variables that can be defined for any kind of stimulus. The advantage of using...

The emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has caused a high disrupting effect on online education. One of the most extended MOOC platforms is Open edX. There is a demanding necessity by the instructors and students of these courses to provide timely analytics tools that can help understand the learning process at any moment. In this direction we have devel‐ oped the Add-on of learNin...

Statistics show that, on average, each user of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) uses “jump-back” to navigate a course video for 2.6 times. In this work, employing one of the largest Chinese MOOCs, XuetangX.com, as the source for our research, we study the extent to which we can develop a methodology to understand the user intention and help the user alleviate this problem by suggesting the b...

Studies on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) users discuss the existence of typical profiles and their impact on the learning process of students. One of the concerns when creating a new MOOC is knowing how the users behave when going through the contents. We can identify either quantitative methods that allow you to infer hardly interpretable groups of similar behaviour[1] or hardly context-...

In consideration of shortcomings of general teachers’ training module, such as less chance, inefficiency, theory-practice gap and short duration, we expounds the concept and process of teachers’ training module based on MOOC, discusses how MOOC platform promote collaborative teachers’ training development and improve teachers’ training methods and other issues in this paper. This paper proposes...

Despite the original tenets about openness and participatory characteristics of MOOCs [1], the majority of MOOCs are delivered in a semi-structured asynchronous way bridging the strong structure of traditional courses -signposted by lectures, tutorials/seminars and activities/assignment deadlinesand open courseware in which student are able to select their own learning paths and goals. Looking ...

A survey of the literature shows that as early as 1907 Tucker described an outbreak of jaundice in one of the congested areas of Byculla; of the ten cases recorded in the paper nine proved fatal. No bacteriological studies were carried out. Parmanand (1922) studied seven cases of jaundice that came under his observation. The description of the symptoms no doubt conform to that of leptospirosis,...

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) can create large scale communities of learners who collaborate, interact and discuss learning materials and activities. MOOCs are often delivered multiple times with similar content to different cohorts of learners. However, research into the differences of learner communication, behavior and expectation between multiple presentations is scarce. This is of im...