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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)"”.
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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 …
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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
… forcing the move from residential campuses to online learning. In South Africa, the shutdown further exacerbated the lack of access to Higher Education (HE) amongst youth, which adds to higher unemployment rates and perpetuates the cycle of poverty with detrimental consequences for society. …
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Analyzing student learning trajectories in an introductory programming MOOC
Understanding student learning and behavior in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can help us make online learning more beneficial for students. We investigate student learning trajectories on the individual problem level in an MITx MOOC teaching introductory programming in Python, considering …
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The influence of grades on learning behavior of students in MOOCs
… impact of grades on the behavior of students in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). MOOCs often use grades to give students feedback on their understanding of course material and to determine whether a student passes the course. To better understand how student behavior is influenced by grade …
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Understanding the doer effect for computational subjects with MOOCs
… is not well-understood. Also, given that MOOCs cater to a variety of students, predicting student experience levels can benefit instructors. To address these problems, we used data from massive open online courses (MOOCs) to understand how different student activities are correlated with …
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Challenges in creating online courses and establishing a measure of their efficacy with an example of MIT's course in Sustainable Energy
Online education is changing traditional models of learning both in schools and the outside world. The developments of learning pedagogies and technology have also contributed to the adoption of online education. Some benefits of online education include the immense variety of content, lower costs, …
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Analyzing Student’s Problem-solving Approaches in MOOCs using Natural Language Processing
… processing (NLP) driven method to capture online learners’ problem-solving approaches while using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a learning platform. It employs an online survey to gather data, NLP techniques, and existing educational theories to investigate this in the lens of both …
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Stopout prediction in massive open online courses
… Though that sounds like an unlikely scenario, Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs, have practically made that a reality by offering previously exclusive classes to mass audiences. However, as the barriers to entry for MOOCs are very low, student dropout, referred to as student `stopout' [2], is …
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The synthetic student : a machine learning model to simulate MOOC data
It's now possible to take all of your favorite courses online. With growing popularity, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer a learning opportunity to anyone with a computer - as well as an opportunity for researchers to investigate student learning through the accumulation of data about …
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Perceptions of Faculty and Instructional Designers on Multicultural Learners’ Needs in Massive Open Online Courses
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are one of the most innovative forms of online instruction delivered to learners of different language, cultural and educational backgrounds around the world. These multicultural learners have diverse communication styles, learning behaviors and needs that are …
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A data mining approach to ontology learning for automatic content-related question-answering in MOOCs.
The advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allows massive volume of registrants to enrol in these MOOCs. This research aims to offer MOOCs registrants with automatic content related feedback to fulfil their cognitive needs. A framework is proposed which consists of three modules which are …
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Prototype learning analytics dashboard (LAD) for an introductory statistics course at UCT
… and progress of a user in a self-regulated, online learning environment. This tool mines source data to provide meaningful information that supports decision making and positively impacts learning behaviour. Research on this topic explores how learning activities and pedagogical goals are …
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Identifying and characterizing subpopulations in massive open online courses
The large and diverse student populations in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) present an unprecedented opportunity to understand student behavior and learn about learning. A tremendous amount of information on students is collected by logging their behaviors. However, despite this wealth of …
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Essays on the Design of Inclusive Learning in Massive Open Online Courses, and Implications for Educational Futures
… examines the tensions and contradictions of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a force for more inclusive tertiary education, particularly for adults without a college degree in the United States. Through a multimethodological research approach yielding three discrete papers, presented as …
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Student Engagement in Aviation Moocs: Identifying Subgroups and Their Differences
… of learner engagement in aviation-related Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through cluster analysis. MOOCs, regarded for their low- or no-cost educational content, often attract thousands of students who are free to engage with the provided content to the extent of their choosing. As …
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Adult learners' perceptions of MOOC motivation, success, and completion: a virtual ethnographic study
<p>Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been credited with disrupting the traditional classroom and challenging distance education models in higher education. MOOCs were developed with the intention of opening up education to the masses, specifically those in developing countries who could not …
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Exploring communication patterns in Massive Open Online Courses
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) use free or low-fee short courses to increase access to education both in the United States and internationally. Since the University of Illinois partnered with the MOOC provider Coursera in 2013 it has seen over 1.55 million enrollments in over 125 open courses, …
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The application of Machine Learning for Early Detection of At -Risk Learners in Massive Open Online Courses
With the rapid improvement of digital technology, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as powerful open educational learning platforms. MOOCs have been experiencing increased use and popularity in highly ranked universities in recent years. The opportunity to access high-quality …
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Addressing Injustices through MOOCs: A study among peri-urban, marginalised, South African youth
… are often reinforced and amplified in online ‘global’ education through a form of digital neocolonialism, which is where hegemonic powers indirectly control or influence marginalised groups through the internet or information technology. In striving for justice-oriented online education …
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