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An earlier study of a collaborative chat intervention in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) identified negative effects on attrition stemming from a requirement for students to be matched with exactly one partner prior to beginning the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Gaurav Singh Tomar , Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan , Xu Wang , Carolyn Penstein Rosé

Massive open online courses (MOOC) describe platforms where users with completely different backgrounds subscribe to various courses on offer. MOOC forums and discussion boards offer learners a medium to communicate with each other and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Sankalp Prabhakar , Gerasimos Spanakis , Osmar Zaiane

In the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) learning scenario, the semantic information of instructional videos has a crucial impact on learners' emotional state. Learners mainly acquire knowledge by watching instructional videos, and the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yuan Zhang , Xiaomei Tao , Hanxu Ai , Tao Chen , Yanling Gan

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) make high-quality instruction accessible. However, the lack of face-to-face interaction makes it difficult for instructors to obtain feedback on learners' performance and provide more effective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zhiguang Zhou , Ruiqi Yu , Yuming Ma , Hao Ni , Guojun Li , Li Ye , Xiaoying Wang , Yize Li , Yigang Wang , Yong Wang

Online tools provide unique access to research students' study habits and problem-solving behavior. In MOOCs, this online data can be used to inform instructors and to provide automatic guidance to students. However, these techniques may…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Adithya Sheshadri , Niki Gitinabard , Collin F. Lynch , Tiffany Barnes , Sarah Heckman

Massive Open Online Courseware (MOOCs) appeared in 2008 and grew considerably in the past decade, now reaching millions of students and professionals all over the world. MOOCs do not replace other educational forms. Instead, they complement…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Eduardo Guerra , Fabio Kon , Paulo Lemos

In recent years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have witnessed immense growth in popularity. Now, due to the recent Covid19 pandemic situation, it is important to push the limits of online education. Discussion forums are primary means…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Shalini Pandey , Andrew Lan , George Karypis , Jaideep Srivastava

With large student enrollment, MOOC instructors face the unique challenge in deciding when to intervene in forum discussions with their limited bandwidth. We study this problem of instructor intervention. Using a large sample of forum data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran , Min-Yen Kan , Bernard C. Y. Tan , Kiruthika Ragupathi

This paper addresses a key challenge in Educational Data Mining, namely to model student behavioral trajectories in order to provide a means for identifying students most at-risk, with the goal of providing supportive interventions. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Byungsoo Jeon , Eyal Shafran , Luke Breitfeller , Jason Levin , Carolyn P. Rose

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been used by students as a low-cost and low-touch educational credential in a variety of fields. Understanding the grading mechanisms behind these course assignments is important for evaluating MOOC…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Siruo Wang , Leah R. Jager , Kai Kammers , Aboozar Hadavand , Jeffrey T. Leek

Educational videos are widely used across various instructional models in higher education to support flexible and self-paced learning. However, student engagement with these videos varies significantly depending on how they are designed.…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-19 Mohamed Tolba , Olivia Kendall , Daniel Tudball Smith , Alexander Gregg , Tony Vo , Scott Wordley

The increasing popularity of e-learning has created demand for improving online education through techniques such as predictive analytics and content recommendations. In this paper, we study learner outcome predictions, i.e., predictions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Yuwei Tu , Weiyu Chen , Christopher G. Brinton

Student learning activity in MOOCs can be viewed from multiple perspectives. We present a new organization of MOOC learner activity data at a resolution that is in between the fine granularity of the clickstream and coarse organizations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Yanbang Wang , Nancy Law , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

The impact of MOOC courses in the processes of distance learning has been extremely important from the very beginning. They offer an innovative model of massive teaching, which exploits in a paradigmatic manner the potential and relevance…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Jessica Perez-Parras , Jose Gomez-Galan

The study explores whether the use of Twitter in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) promotes the interaction among learners. The social network analysis shows that instructors still play a very central role in the social media…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Suhang Jiang , Dimitrios Kotzias

An exploratory study on social interactions of MOOC students in FutureLearn was conducted, to answer "how can we cluster students based on their social interactions?" Comments were categorized based on how students interacted with them,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lei Shi , Alexandra Cristea , Ahmad Alamri , Armando M. Toda , Wilk Oliveira

Premised upon the observation that MOOC and crowdsourcing phenomena share several important characteristics, including IT mediation, large-scale human participation, and varying levels of openness to participants, this work systematizes a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-22 John Prpic , James Melton , Araz Taeihagh , Terry Anderson

Educational recommenders have received much less attention in comparison to e-commerce and entertainment-related recommenders, even though efficient intelligent tutors have great potential to improve learning gains. One of the main…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Sahan Bulathwela , Maria Perez-Ortiz , Erik Novak , Emine Yilmaz , John Shawe-Taylor

Despite artificial intelligence (AI) having transformed major aspects of our society, less than a fraction of its potential has been explored, let alone deployed, for education. AI-powered learning can provide millions of learners with a…

In the Fall of 2013, Georgia Tech offered a 'flipped' calculus-based introductory mechanics class as an alternative to the traditional large-enrollment lecture class. This class flipped instruction by introducing new material outside of the…