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Each time a learner in a self-paced online course seeks to answer an assessment question, it takes some time for the student to read the question and arrive at an answer to submit. If multiple attempts are allowed, and the first answer is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Ilia Rushkin , Isaac Chuang , Dustin Tingley

The modern educational ecosystem is not one-size fits all. Scholars are accustomed to personalization in their everyday life and expect the same from education systems. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic placed us all in an acute teaching…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Ralucca Gera , Akrati Saxena , D'Marie Bartolf , Simona Tick

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

Feedback has a powerful influence on learning, but it is also expensive to provide. In large classes, it may even be impossible for instructors to provide individualized feedback. Peer assessment has received attention lately as a way of…

Applications · Statistics 2014-10-16 Dennis L. Sun , Naftali Harris , Guenther Walther , Michael Baiocchi

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the road that led to a revolution and a new era of learning environments. Educational institutions have come under pressure to adopt new models that assure openness in their education distribution.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Mohammad Khalil , Martin Ebner

Computer science education is a dynamic field with many aspects that influence the learner's path. While these aspects are usually studied in depth separately, it is also important to carry out broader large-scale studies that touch on many…

The ubiquity of technology in our daily lives and the economic stability of the technology sector in recent years, especially in areas with a computer science footing, has led to an increase in computer science enrollment in many parts of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Zubair Nabi

High-quality computer science (CS) instruction is essential for preparing students to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven world. This research brief presents findings from a six-year longitudinal study of CS enrollments in seven…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Cynthia L. Blitz , David J. Amiel , Teresa G. Duncan

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

To enhance student learning, we demonstrate an experimental study to analyze student learning outcomes in online and in-class sections of a core data communications course of the Undergraduate IT program in the Information Sciences and…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-12-15 Pouyan Ahmadi , Khondkar Islam. Salman Yousaf

This study examines the impact of an AI instructional agent on students' perceived learner control and academic performance in a medium demanding course with lecturing as the main teaching strategy. Based on a randomized controlled trial,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Fei Qin , Zhanxin Hao , Jifan Yu , Zhiyuan Liu , Yu Zhang

Contribution: This study examined student effort and performance in an introductory programming course with respect to student-held implicit theories and self-efficacy. Background: Implicit theories and self-efficacy shed a light into…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-03 F. Boray Tek , Kristin S. Benli , Ezgi Deveci

A typical problem in MOOCs is the missing opportunity for course conductors to individually support students in overcoming their problems and misconceptions. This paper presents the results of automatically intervening on struggling…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Ralf Teusner , Thomas Hille , Thomas Staubitz

The hit of the COVID-19 pandemic has hugely affected higher education in the world, and as a result, most of the physical classes have been (partially) replaced by online teaching platforms. This transition is challenging even for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Mehrnoosh Askarpour

We asked students to explain the structure and execution of their small programs after they had submitted them to a programming exercise. These questions about learner's code (QLCs) were delivered at three occasions in an online and open…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Teemu Lehtinen , Aleksi Lukkarinen , Lassi Haaranen

Over the past decade, an explosion in the availability of education-related datasets has enabled new computational research in education. Much of this work has investigated digital traces of online learners in order to better understand and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Nabeel Gillani , Rebecca Eynon

The use of new technologies in higher education has surprisingly emphasized students' tendency to adopt a passive behavior in class. Participation and interaction of students are essential to improve academic results. This paper describes…

Over the past decade, higher education has undergone successive shifts driven by three major developments: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Smart Teaching technologies, and AI-enhanced learning. Each paradigm emerged to address specific…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bo Yuan , Jiazi Hu

University students routinely use the tools provided by online course ranking forums to share and discuss their satisfaction with the quality of instruction and content in a wide variety of courses. Student perception of the efficacy of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Taha Hassan , Bob Edmison , Larry Cox , Matthew Louvet , Daron Williams

Through online anecdotal evidence and online communities, there is an in-group idea of trans people (specifically trans-feminine individuals) disproportionately entering computer science education & fields. Existing data suggests this is a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Skye Kychenthal