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This paper addresses a key challenge in MOOC dropout prediction, namely to build meaningful representations from clickstream data. While a variety of feature extraction techniques have been explored extensively for such purposes, to our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Byungsoo Jeon , Namyong Park

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

MOOCs offer free and open access to a wide audience, but completion rates remain low, often due to a lack of personalized content. To address this issue, it is essential to predict learner performance in order to provide tailored feedback.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Anass El Ayady , Maxime Devanne , Germain Forestier , Nour El Mawas

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

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

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become popular platforms for online learning. While MOOCs enable students to study at their own pace, this flexibility makes it easy for students to drop out of class. In this paper, our goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Byungsoo Jeon , Namyong Park , Seojin Bang

The development of technologies of multimedia, linked to that of Internet and democratization of high speed, has made henceforth E-learning possible for learners being in virtual classes and geographically distributed. One benefit to taking…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Bousaaid Mourad , Ayaou Tarik , Afdel Karim , Estraillier Pascal

Understanding why students stopout will help in understanding how students learn in MOOCs. In this report, part of a 3 unit compendium, we describe how we build accurate predictive models of MOOC student stopout. We document a scalable,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Colin Taylor , Kalyan Veeramachaneni , Una-May O'Reilly

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) exhibit a remarkable heterogeneity of students. The advent of complex "big data" from MOOC platforms is a challenging yet rewarding opportunity to deeply understand how students are engaged in MOOCs. Past…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Lei Shi , Alexandra I. Cristea , Armando M. Toda , Wilk Oliveira

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

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 recent pandemic has changed the way we see education. It is not surprising that children and college students are not the only ones using online education. Millions of adults have signed up for online classes and courses during last…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Manuel J. Gomez , Mario Calderón , Victor Sánchez , Félix J. García Clemente , José A. Ruipérez-Valiente

The study in interaction patterns between students in on-campus and MOOC-style online courses has been broadly studied for the last 11 years. Yet there remains a gap in the literature comparing the habits of students completing the same…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Thomas Trask

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 Course (MOOC) platforms incorporate large course catalogs from which individual students may register multiple courses. We performed a network-based analysis of student achievement, considering how course-course…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Edwin H. Wintermute , Matthieu Cisel , Ariel B. Lindner

As part of a larger research project into massively open online courses (MOOCs), we have investigated student background, as well as student participation in a physics MOOC with a laboratory component. Students completed a demographic…

In a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), predictive models of student behavior can support multiple aspects of learning, including instructor feedback and timely intervention. Ongoing courses, when the student outcomes are yet unknown, must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Mucong Ding , Yanbang Wang , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

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

The word E transformed everything is this world, as well as the whole globe itself. To a great extend this helps for eco friendly green world. In educational field, electronic medium has played a major role. It influenced and changed almost…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-04-09 R. D. Balaji , Fatma Al-Mahri , Tarek Al-Fatnaasi

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