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Learning management systems (LMS) like Moodle are increasingly used to support university teaching. As Moodle courses become more complex, incorporating diverse interactive elements, it is important to understand how students navigate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tobias Hildebrandt , Lars Mehnen

Intelligent tutors have proven to be effective in K-12 education, though their impact on adult learners -- especially as a supplementary resource -- remains underexplored. Understanding how adults voluntarily engage with educational…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Adit Gupta , Christopher MacLellan

In recommender systems, modeling user-item behaviors is essential for user representation learning. Existing sequential recommenders consider the sequential correlations between historically interacted items for capturing users' historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yujie Lu , Shengyu Zhang , Yingxuan Huang , Luyao Wang , Xinyao Yu , Zhou Zhao , Fei Wu

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

Digital learning environments generate a precise record of the actions learners take as they interact with learning materials and complete exercises towards comprehension. With this high quantity of sequential data comes the potential to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Steven Tang , Joshua C. Peterson , Zachary A. Pardos

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

Flipped learning is a method that flips in/out class activities to make lectures learner-centered. In flipped learning, comments from learners on preparation material are useful information for instructors to consider before deciding…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Shintaro Uchiyama , Hayato Okumoto , Mitsuo Yoshida , Yuko Ichikawa , Kyoji Umemura

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become increasingly popular worldwide. However, learners primarily rely on watching videos, easily losing knowledge context and reducing learning effectiveness. We propose HyperMOOC, a novel approach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Li Ye , Lei Wang , Lihong Cai , Ruiqi Yu , Yong Wang , Yigang Wang , Wei Chen , Zhiguang Zhou

Most education and workplace learning takes place in classroom contexts far removed from laboratories or field sites with special arrangements for scientific research. But digital online resources provide a novel opportunity for large scale…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Joseph Jay Williams , Juho Kim , Brian C. Keegan

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

Real-world systems often involve some pool of users choosing between a set of services. With the increase in popularity of online learning algorithms, these services can now self-optimize, leveraging data collected on users to maximize some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Eliot Shekhtman , Sarah Dean

Microswimmers in turbulent flows often navigate complex, heterogeneous, and obstacle-rich environments, where they exhibit intricate behaviors such as trapping at and escape from obstacles. We generalize recent $\mathcal{Q}-$learning…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Vaishnavi Gajendragad , Akanksha Gupta , Nadia Bihari Padhan , Rahul Pandit

Autonomous mobile robots need to perceive the environments with their onboard sensors (e.g., LiDARs and RGB cameras) and then make appropriate navigation decisions. In order to navigate human-inhabited public spaces, such a navigation task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Bhabaranjan Panigrahi , Amir Hossain Raj , Mohammad Nazeri , Xuesu Xiao

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a popular choice for e-learning thanks to their great flexibility. However, due to large numbers of learners and their diverse backgrounds, it is taxing to offer real-time support. Learners…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jialin Yu , Laila Alrajhi , Anoushka Harit , Zhongtian Sun , Alexandra I. Cristea , Lei Shi

Semantic navigation is necessary to deploy mobile robots in uncontrolled environments like our homes, schools, and hospitals. Many learning-based approaches have been proposed in response to the lack of semantic understanding of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Theophile Gervet , Soumith Chintala , Dhruv Batra , Jitendra Malik , Devendra Singh Chaplot

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together a global crowd of thousands of learners for several weeks or months. In theory, the openness and scale of MOOCs can promote iterative dialogue that facilitates group cognition and knowledge…

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

Student modeling, the task of inferring a student's learning characteristics through their interactions with coursework, is a fundamental issue in intelligent education. Although the recent attempts from knowledge tracing and cognitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Jifan Yu , Mengying Lu , Qingyang Zhong , Zijun Yao , Shangqing Tu , Zhengshan Liao , Xiaoya Li , Manli Li , Lei Hou , Hai-Tao Zheng , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang

Learner satisfaction is a critical quality signal in massive open online courses (MOOCs), directly influencing retention, engagement, and platform reputation. Most existing methods infer satisfaction \emph{post hoc} from end-of-course…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Anna Kowalczyk , Jakub Kowalski

Massive open online courses (MOOC) have become important in the learning journey of college students and have been extensively implemented in higher education. However, there are few studies that investigated the willingness to continue…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-27 D. Shang , Q. Chen , X. Guo , H. Jin , S. Ke , M. Li

In this work, we explore video lecture interaction in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which is central to student learning experience on these educational platforms. As a research contribution, we operationalize video lecture…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Tanmay Sinha , Patrick Jermann , Nan Li , Pierre Dillenbourg