Improving learning experience in MOOCs with educational content linking

Since the first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in 2011, there have been over 4,000 MOOCs on various subjects on the Web, serving over 35 million learners. MOOCs have shown the ability to transcend time and space, democratize knowledge dissemination, and bring the best education in the world to every learner. However, the disparate distances between participants, the size of the learner population, and the heterogeneity of the learner backgrounds make it difficult for instructors to interact with learners in a timely manner, which adversely affects their learning outcome. To address these challenges, in this thesis, we propose a framework of educational content linking. By linking pieces of learning content scattered in the various course materials into an easily accessible structure, we hypothesize that this framework will guide learners and improve content navigation.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Li, Shang-Wen,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Victor W. Zue.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108989

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/108989