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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are seen as a next step in distance online learning. In the MOOC vision, large numbers of students can access the course content over the Internet and complete courses at their own pace while interacting…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Markus Harju , Teemu Leppänen , Ilkka Virtanen

In this work, the problem of predicting dropout risk in undergraduate studies is addressed from a perspective of algorithmic fairness. We develop a machine learning method to predict the risks of university dropout and underperformance. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Marzieh Karimi-Haghighi , Carlos Castillo , Davinia Hernandez-Leo , Veronica Moreno Oliver

Learners regularly abandon online coding tutorials when they get bored or frustrated, but there are few techniques for anticipating this abandonment to intervene. In this paper, we examine the feasibility of predicting abandonment with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 An Yan , Michael J. Lee , Andrew J. Ko

With an expansive and ubiquitously available gold mine of educational data, Massive Open Online courses (MOOCs) have become the an important foci of learning analytics research. In this paper, we investigate potential reasons as to why are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Tanmay Sinha

Student dropout is a global issue influenced by personal, familial, and academic factors, with varying rates across countries. This paper introduces an AI-driven predictive modeling approach to identify students at risk of dropping out…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ismail Elbouknify , Ismail Berrada , Loubna Mekouar , Youssef Iraqi , El Houcine Bergou , Hind Belhabib , Younes Nail , Souhail Wardi

In the educational domain, identifying students at risk of dropping out is essential for allowing educators to intervene effectively, improving both academic outcomes and overall student well-being. Data in educational settings often…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiabei Cheng , Zhen-Qun Yang , Jiannong Cao , Yu Yang , Kai Cheung Franky Poon , Daniel Lai

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

This work is an attempt to discover hidden structural configurations in learning activity sequences of students in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Leveraging combined representations of video clickstream interactions and forum…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Tanmay Sinha , Nan Li , Patrick Jermann , Pierre Dillenbourg

To increase efficacy in traditional classroom courses as well as in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), automated systems supporting the instructor are needed. One important problem is to automatically detect students that are going to do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Yannick Meier , Jie Xu , Onur Atan , Mihaela van der Schaar

With an expansive and ubiquitously available gold mine of educational data, Massive Open Online courses (MOOCs) have become the an important foci of learning analytics research. The hope is that this new surge of development will bring the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Tanmay Sinha

Students who take an online course, such as a MOOC, use the course's discussion forum to ask questions or reach out to instructors when encountering an issue. However, reading and responding to students' questions is difficult to scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Valdemar Švábenský , Ryan S. Baker , Andrés Zambrano , Yishan Zou , Stefan Slater

We present a novel learning analytics approach, for analyzing the usage of resources in MOOCs. Our target stakeholders are the course designers who aim to evaluate their learning materials. In order to gain insight into the way educational…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Remi Brochenin , Joos Buijs , Mehrnoosh Vahdat , Wil van der Aalst

Millions of people have enrolled and enrol (especially in the Covid-19 pandemic world) in MOOCs. However, the retention rate of learners is notoriously low. The majority of the research work on this issue focuses on predicting the dropout…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Ahmed Alamri , Zhongtian Sun , Alexandra I. Cristea , Gautham Senthilnathan , Lei Shi , Craig Stewart

Research on Knowledge Tracing (KT) models traditionally focuses on improving predictive accuracy. However, responsible real-world deployment requires models to know when to defer uncertain predictions to a human teacher. We introduce an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Joshua Mitton , Prarthana Bhattacharyya , Ralph Abboud , Simon Woodhead

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

Large-scale administrative data is a common input in early warning systems for college dropout in higher education. Still, the terminology and methodology vary significantly across existing studies, and the implications of different…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Dominik Glandorf , Hye Rin Lee , Gabe Avakian Orona , Marina Pumptow , Renzhe Yu , Christian Fischer

The effectiveness of learning in massive open online courses (MOOCs) can be significantly enhanced by introducing personalized intervention schemes which rely on building predictive models of student learning behaviors such as some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Mucong Ding , Kai Yang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Ting-Chuen Pong

With the rise of online eTextbooks and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), a huge amount of data has been collected related to students' learning. With the careful analysis of this data, educators can gain useful insights into the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Ahmed Abd Elrahman , Taysir Hassan A Soliman , Ahmed I. Taloba , Mohammed F. Farghally

The past few years has seen the rapid growth of data min- ing approaches for the analysis of data obtained from Mas- sive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The objectives of this study are to develop approaches to predict the scores a stu- dent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Zhiyun Ren , Huzefa Rangwala , Aditya Johri

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the road that led to a revolution and a new era of learning environments. Educational institutions have come under pressure to adopt new models that assure openness in their education distribution.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Mohammad Khalil , Martin Ebner