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The birth of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has had an undeniable effect on how teaching is being delivered. It seems that traditional in class teaching is becoming less popular with the young generation, the generation that wants to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sepinoud Azimi , Carmen-Gabriela Popa , Tatjana Cucić

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

The amount of data in our society has been exploding in the era of big data today. In this paper, we address several open challenges of big data stream classification, including high volume, high velocity, high dimensionality, high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Dayong Wang , Pengcheng Wu , Peilin Zhao , Steven C. H. Hoi

Big data repositories from online learning platforms such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent an unprecedented opportunity to advance research on education at scale and impact a global population of learners. To date, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Josh Gardner , Christopher Brooks , Juan Miguel L. Andres , Ryan Baker

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

One of the most important areas of todays computer technology is Cloud Computing. Benefits of Cloud Computing in various areas cannot be ignored. One field affected by the opportunities provided by Cloud Computing is education. MOOC emerged…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Mansur Beştaş

Modern recommender systems operate in uniquely dynamic settings: user interests, item pools, and popularity trends shift continuously, and models must adapt in real time without forgetting past preferences. While existing tutorials on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hyunsik Yoo , SeongKu Kang , Hanghang Tong

The recent advances in computer-assisted learning systems and the availability of open educational resources today promise a pathway to providing cost-efficient, high-quality education to large masses of learners. One of the most ambitious…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Sahan Bulathwela , Maria Perez-Ortiz , Emine Yilmaz , John Shawe-Taylor

Since its introduction in 2011, there have been over 4000 MOOCs on various subjects on the Web, serving over 35 million learners. MOOCs have shown the ability to democratize knowledge dissemination and bring the best education in the world…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Shang-Wen Li

The substantial growth of online learning, in particular, Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), supports research into the development of better models for effective learning. Learner 'confusion' is among one of the identified aspects…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Thushari Atapattu , Katrina Falkner , Menasha Thilakaratne , Lavendini Sivaneasharajah , Rangana Jayashanka

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are attracting the attention of people all over the world. Regardless the platform, numbers of registrants for online courses are impressive but in the same time, completion rates are disappointing.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Tom Rolandus Hagedoorn , Gerasimos Spanakis

In the era of the big data, we create and collect lots of data from all different kinds of sources: the Internet, the sensors, the consumer market, and so on. Many of the data are coming sequentially, and would like to be processed and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Jianjun Yuan

Recently there has been a surge of interest in operations research (OR) and the machine learning (ML) community in combining prediction algorithms and optimization techniques to solve decision-making problems in the face of uncertainty.…

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In management education programmes today, students face a difficult time in choosing electives as the number of electives available are many. As the range and diversity of different elective courses available for selection have increased,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Sanjog Ray , Anuj Sharma

The increasing availability of learning activity data in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) enables us to conduct a large-scale analysis of learners' learning behavior. In this paper, we analyze a dataset of 351 million learning activities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Xin Zhou , Aixin Sun , Jie Zhang , Donghui Lin

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…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Rebecca Eynon , Isis Hjorth , Taha Yasseri , Nabeel Gillani

The knowledge concept recommendation in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is a significant issue that has garnered widespread attention. Existing methods primarily rely on the explicit relations between users and knowledge concepts on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Hengnian Gu , Zhiyi Duan , Pan Xie , Dongdai Zhou

Massive open online courses (MOOCs), which offer open access and widespread interactive participation through the internet, are quickly becoming the preferred method for online and remote learning. Several MOOC platforms offer the service…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jibing Gong , Yao Wan , Ye Liu , Xuewen Li , Yi Zhao , Cheng Wang , Yuting Lin , Xiaohan Fang , Wenzheng Feng , Jingyi Zhang , Jie Tang

This Work in Progress Research paper departs from the recent, turbulent changes in global societies, forcing many citizens to re-skill themselves to (re)gain employment. Learners therefore need to be equipped with skills to be autonomous…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Mohammadreza Tavakoli , Ali Faraji , Stefan T. Mol , Gábor Kismihók

We introduce a unified Learning Context (LC) framework designed to transition AI-based education from context-blind mimicry to a principled, holistic understanding of the learner. This white paper provides a multidisciplinary roadmap for…