Understanding Communication Patterns in MOOCs: Combining Data Mining and qualitative methods
Computers and Society
2023-01-05 v1 Social and Information Networks
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Physics and Society
Abstract
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer unprecedented opportunities to learn at scale. Within a few years, the phenomenon of crowd-based learning has gained enormous popularity with millions of learners across the globe participating in courses ranging from Popular Music to Astrophysics. They have captured the imaginations of many, attracting significant media attention - with The New York Times naming 2012 "The Year of the MOOC." For those engaged in learning analytics and educational data mining, MOOCs have provided an exciting opportunity to develop innovative methodologies that harness big data in education.
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@article{arxiv.1607.07495,
title = {Understanding Communication Patterns in MOOCs: Combining Data Mining and qualitative methods},
author = {Rebecca Eynon and Isis Hjorth and Taha Yasseri and Nabeel Gillani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07495},
year = {2023}
}
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Preprint of a chapter to appear in "Data Mining and Learning Analytics: Applications in Educational Research"