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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

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

In order to enhance students' initiative and participation in MOOC learning, this study constructed a multi-level network model based on Social Network Analysis (SNA). The model makes use of data pertaining to nearly 40,000 users and tens…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zijin Luo , Xu Wang , Yiquan Wang , Haotian Zhang , Zhuangzhuang Li

The proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) demands an effective way of course recommendation for jobs posted in recruitment websites, especially for the people who take MOOCs to find new jobs. Despite the advances of…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Bowen Hao , Jing Zhang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen , Hongzhi Yin

This paper presents for the first time a detailed analysis of fine-grained navigation style identification in MOOCs backed by a large number of active learners. The result shows 1) whilst the sequential style is clearly in evidence, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Lei Shi , Alexandra I. Cristea , Armando M. Toda , Wilk Oliveira

Educational videos are widely used across various instructional models in higher education to support flexible and self-paced learning. However, student engagement with these videos varies significantly depending on how they are designed.…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-19 Mohamed Tolba , Olivia Kendall , Daniel Tudball Smith , Alexander Gregg , Tony Vo , Scott Wordley

Video lectures are becoming more popular and in demand as online classroom teaching is becoming more prevalent. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), such as NPTEL, have been creating high-quality educational content that is freely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Shalika Kumbham , Abhijit Debnath , Krothapalli Sreenivasa Rao

This paper presents a novel approach to understand specific student behavior in MOOCs. Instructors currently perceive participants only as one homogeneous group. In order to improve learning outcomes, they encourage students to get active…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ralf Teusner , Kai-Adrian Rollmann , Jan Renz

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 shortage of people trained in STEM fields is becoming acute, and universities and colleges are straining to satisfy this demand. In the case of computer science, for instance, the number of US students taking introductory courses has…

A wealth of Open Educational Resources is now available, and beyond the first and evident problem of finding them, the issue of articulating a set of resources is arising. When using audiovisual resources, among different possibilities,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Olivier Aubert , Joscha Jaeger

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

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

While there is evidence that user-adaptive support can greatly enhance the effectiveness of educational systems, designing such support for exploratory learning environments (e.g., simulations) is still challenging due to the open-ended…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sébastien Lallé , Cristina Conati

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have significantly enhanced educational accessibility by offering a wide variety of courses and breaking down traditional barriers related to geography, finance, and time. However, students often face…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiarui Rao , Jionghao Lin

Educational e-book platforms provide valuable information to teachers and researchers through two main sources: reading activity data and reading content data. While reading activity data is commonly used to analyze learning strategies and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Erwin Daniel López Zapata , Cheng Tang , Valdemar Švábenský , Fumiya Okubo , Atsushi Shimada

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available teaching and learning materials, such as textbooks, videos, and interactive games, that can be used, reused, adapted, and shared. OER can leverage access, collaboration, and innovation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Pedro Henrique Dias Valle , Rafael Capilla , Vinicius dos Santos , Daniel Feitosa , Elisa Yumi Nakagawa

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

Mastering educational concepts requires understanding both their prerequisites (e.g., recursion before merge sort) and sub-concepts (e.g., merge sort as part of sorting algorithms). Capturing these dependencies is critical for identifying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Abdulrahman AlRabah , Priyanka Kargupta , Jiawei Han , Abdussalam Alawini

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platforms are becoming increasingly popular in recent years. Online learners need to watch the whole course video on MOOC platforms to learn the underlying new knowledge, which is often tedious and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Zhiguang Zhou , Li Ye , Lihong Cai , Lei Wang , Yigang Wang , Yongheng Wang , Wei Chen , Yong Wang