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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Coursera"”.
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Learning in MOOCS: An exploratory analysis of participation patterns and their relation to demographic variables and other influential factors
… of participation among MOOC learners in the Coursera platform and identify the different demographic variables and influential factors that could relate to these patterns. Data was obtained from the data logs and survey results recorded by the Coursera platform of the session-based …
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Exploring communication patterns in Massive Open Online Courses
… of Illinois partnered with the MOOC provider Coursera in 2013 it has seen over 1.55 million enrollments in over 125 open courses, as well as the development of four online graduate-level degree programs. Yet online distance education includes potential drawbacks such as limited communication …
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Higher education online: a comparative analysis of online programs for free university-level education
… high-caliber, online, university-level programs (Coursera, edX, and Udacity). This thesis also offers insights into how to improve upon these programs to better meet the needs of students seeking higher education online.
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MICA optical : a low-cost, educational Michelson interferometer
… to online educational tools, such as edX and Coursera, are transforming education. The MICA (Measurement, Instrumentation, Control, and Analysis) Project, developed by MIT's BioInstrumentation Lab, is a similar initiative that aims to provide students with affordable, modular, and practical …
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Cursos online abertos e MOOCs : modelos e estratégias com base em dois casos
… em comparar dois casos de MOOCs, um curso da Coursera e outro da Universidade Aberta, em termos de duração, ritmo, conteúdo programático, interação e o número de aprovações com sucesso. O presente estudo seguiu uma metodologia qualitativa, enquadrando-se num estudo de dois casos, numa …
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Learnersourcing : improving learning with collective learner activity
… online platforms, such as Khan Academy, YouTube, Coursera, and edX, to take courses and master new skills. But existing video interfaces are not designed to support learning, with limited interactivity and lack of information about learners' engagement and content. Making these improvements …
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Transfer learning for predictive models in MOOCs
… We then tested this model on 10 courses from Coursera (a different platform) and demonstrate that this model achieves an AUCROC of 0.8 across these courses for the problem of predicting dropout one week in advance. Thus, the model "transfers" very well.
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EdVidParse : detecting people and content in educational videos
… content on the Internet, with services like edX, Coursera, Berkeley WebCasts, and others offering hundreds of courses to hundreds of thousands of learners. Consequently, researchers are interested in the effectiveness of video learning. While educational videos vary, they share two common …
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Pentimento : retroactive editing for lectures
… for online education platforms such as edX or Coursera. By decoupling the visual and audio domains of a lecture, content creators are able to more freely fix mistakes or change small portions without the need to re-record the correct portions. Small recordings are pieced together to give the …
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Perceptions of Faculty and Instructional Designers on Multicultural Learners’ Needs in Massive Open Online Courses
… a wide variety of MOOC subjects on the Coursera hosting platform. The insights of participants into specific instructional strategies that were designed especially for MOOC multicultural learners’ needs were categorized into three themes: language, content and engagement. These …
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Evaluation of Speech And Text-Based Indexing For Classroom Lecture Videos
… departments at the University of Houston and Coursera website. The captions were produced with the assistance of the YouTube Speech Recognition System. The performances and limitations of OCR text, uncorrected/original speech text, and corrected speech text-based indexing was analyzed. The …
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Adult learners' perceptions of MOOC motivation, success, and completion: a virtual ethnographic study
… justice topic of human trafficking via the Coursera platform. The anthropological nature of the research methods led to a richer understanding of the adult learner MOOC culture as a socially dynamic democratic environment involving social presence, lurking, up-voting, down-voting, peer …
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Towards high quality, scalable education: Techniques in automated assessment and probabilistic user behavior modeling
… temporal action patterns of learners in Coursera MOOCs. I present a two-layer hidden Markov model (2L-HMM) to extract a multi-resolution summary of user behavior patterns and their evolution, and show that these patterns can be used to extract latent features that correlate with …
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Promoting Inclusive Higher Education in the digital age: Wrapping massive open online courses (MOOCs) for youth from marginalised communities in South Africa
… on the popularity of MOOCs where platforms like Coursera, edX, and FutureLearn attracted as many users in one month as they did in an entire year of 2019. The significance of the study was evident during the HE shutdown when access to educational resources became crucial in the remote and online …
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Multimedia learning: principles of learning and instructional improvement in Massive, Open, Online Courses (MOOCS)
With good reason, many initial Massive, Open, Online Course (MOOC) studies conducted in the first three years of widespread MOOC hype and adoption have focused on retention rates and completion issues. No longer a new modality, many of the retention questions have now been answered as researchers …