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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 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

Despite the increasing popularity of massive open online courses (MOOCs), many suffer from high dropout and low success rates. Early prediction of student success for targeted intervention is therefore essential to ensure no student is left…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Vinitra Swamy , Mirko Marras , Tanja Käser

Informal learning on the Web using search engines as well as more structured learning on MOOC platforms have become very popular in recent years. As a result of the vast amount of available learning resources, intelligent retrieval and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Christian Otto , Markos Stamatakis , Anett Hoppe , Ralph Ewerth

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

Timely prediction of students at high risk of dropout is critical for early intervention and improving educational outcomes. However, in offline educational settings, poor data quality, limited scale, and high heterogeneity often hinder the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jiabei Cheng , Zhen-Qun Yang , Jiannong Cao , Yu Yang , Xinzhe Zheng

Preventing student dropout is a major challenge in higher education and it is difficult to predict prior to enrolment which students are likely to drop out and which students are likely to succeed. High School GPA is a strong predictor of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-23 K. F. B. Soppe , A. Bagheri , S. Nadi , I. G. Klugkist , T. Wubbels , L. D. N. V. Wijngaards-De Meij

Each year, roughly 30% of first-year students at US baccalaureate institutions do not return for their second year and over $9 billion is spent educating these students. Yet, little quantitative research has analyzed the causes and possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-09 Lovenoor Aulck , Nishant Velagapudi , Joshua Blumenstock , Jevin West

In this work, we present a machine learning approach for predicting early dropouts of an active and healthy ageing app. The presented algorithms have been submitted to the IFMBE Scientific Challenge 2022, part of IUPESM WC 2022. We have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Vasileios Perifanis , Ioanna Michailidi , Giorgos Stamatelatos , George Drosatos , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

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

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

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

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

Predictive models of student success in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a critical component of effective content personalization and adaptive interventions. In this article we review the state of the art in predictive models of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Josh Gardner , Christopher Brooks

Dropout is a very effective way of regularizing neural networks. Stochastically "dropping out" units with a certain probability discourages over-specific co-adaptations of feature detectors, preventing overfitting and improving network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Pietro Morerio , Jacopo Cavazza , Riccardo Volpi , Rene Vidal , Vittorio Murino

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

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

Deep learning is the state-of-the-art in fields such as visual object recognition and speech recognition. This learning uses a large number of layers and a huge number of units and connections. Therefore, overfitting is a serious problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Kazuyuki Hara

Overfitting is a common problem in machine learning, which means the model too closely fits the training data while performing poorly in the test data. Among various methods of coping with overfitting, dropout is one of the representative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yangkun Li , Weizhi Ma , Chong Chen , Min Zhang , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma , Yuekui Yang

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