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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 (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

While Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) platforms provide knowledge in a new and unique way, the very high number of dropouts is a significant drawback. Several features are considered to contribute towards learner attrition or lack of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Ahmed Alamri , Mohammad Alshehri , Alexandra I. Cristea , Filipe D. Pereira , Elaine Oliveira , Lei Shi , Craig Stewart

The high level of attrition and low rate of certification in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has prompted a great deal of research. Prior researchers have focused on predicting dropout based upon behavioral features such as student…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Niki Gitinabard , Farzaneh Khoshnevisan , Collin F. Lynch , Elle Yuan Wang

In order to obtain reliable accuracy estimates for automatic MOOC dropout predictors, it is important to train and test them in a manner consistent with how they will be used in practice. Yet most prior research on MOOC dropout prediction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Jacob Whitehill , Kiran Mohan , Daniel Seaton , Yigal Rosen , Dustin Tingley

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

The field of learning analytics needs to adopt a more rigorous approach for predictive model evaluation that matches the complex practice of model-building. In this work, we present a procedure to statistically test hypotheses about model…

Applications · Statistics 2018-02-19 Josh Gardner , Christopher Brooks

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

With the rapid emergence of K-12 online learning platforms, a new era of education has been opened up. It is crucial to have a dropout warning framework to preemptively identify K-12 students who are at risk of dropping out of the online…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Hang Li , Wenbiao Ding , Zitao Liu

Interactive online learning environments, represented by Massive AI-empowered Courses (MAIC), leverage LLM-driven multi-agent systems to transform passive MOOCs into dynamic, text-based platforms, enhancing interactivity through LLMs. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuanchun Wang , Yiyang Fu , Jifan Yu , Daniel Zhang-Li , Zheyuan Zhang , Joy Lim Jia Yin , Yucheng Wang , Peng Zhou , Jing Zhang , Huiqin Liu

Online learning and MOOCs have become increasingly popular in recent years, and the trend will continue, given the technology boom. There is a dire need to observe learners' behavior in these online courses, similar to what instructors do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Aditya Panwar , Ashwin T S , Ramkumar Rajendran , Kavi Arya

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

Real-time and open online course resources of MOOCs have attracted a large number of learners in recent years. However, many new questions were emerging about the high dropout rate of learners. For MOOCs platform, predicting the learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Zhemin Liu , Feng Xiong , Kaifa Zou , Hongzhi Wang

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

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

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 recent years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained significant traction as a rapidly growing phenomenon in online learning. Unlike traditional classrooms, MOOCs offer a unique opportunity to cater to a diverse audience from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Soheila Farokhi , Aswani Yaramala , Jiangtao Huang , Muhammad F. A. Khan , Xiaojun Qi , Hamid Karimi

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

In many real-world applications, from robotics to pedestrian trajectory prediction, there is a need to predict multiple real-valued outputs to represent several potential scenarios. Current deep learning techniques to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 David D. Nguyen , David Liebowitz , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere

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
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