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Article: Understanding Student Engagement in Large Scale Open Online Courses: A Machine Learning Facilitated Analysis of Student’s Reflections in18 Highly-Rated MOOCs

TitleUnderstanding Student Engagement in Large Scale Open Online Courses: A Machine Learning Facilitated Analysis of Student’s Reflections in18 Highly-Rated MOOCs
Authors
KeywordsMOOCs
massive open online courses
engagement
text mining
machine learning
Issue Date2018
PublisherAthabasca University: Open Access. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.irrodl.org/
Citation
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018, v. 19 n. 3 How to Cite?
AbstractAlthough massive open online courses (MOOCs) have attracted much worldwide attention, scholars still understand little about the specific elements that students find engaging in these large open courses. This study offers a new original contribution by using a machine learning classifier to analyze 24,612 reflective sentences posted by 5,884 students, who participated in one or more of 18 highly rated MOOCs. Highly rated MOOCs were sampled because they exemplify good practices or teaching strategies. We selected highly rated MOOCs from Coursetalk, an open user-driven aggregator and discovery website that allows students to search and review various MOOCs. We defined a highly rated MOOC as a free online course that received an overall five-star course quality rating, and received at least 50 reviews from different learners within a specific subject area. We described six specific themes found across the entire data corpus: (a) structure and pace, (b) video, (c) instructor, (d) content and resources, (e) interaction and support, and (f) assignment and assessment. The findings of this study provide valuable insight into factors that students find engaging in large-scale open online courses.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/275818
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 2.5
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.860

 

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dc.contributor.authorHew, KFT-
dc.contributor.authorQiao, C-
dc.contributor.authorTang, Y-
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-10T02:50:17Z-
dc.date.available2019-09-10T02:50:17Z-
dc.date.issued2018-
dc.identifier.citationThe International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018, v. 19 n. 3-
dc.identifier.issn1492-3831-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/275818-
dc.description.abstractAlthough massive open online courses (MOOCs) have attracted much worldwide attention, scholars still understand little about the specific elements that students find engaging in these large open courses. This study offers a new original contribution by using a machine learning classifier to analyze 24,612 reflective sentences posted by 5,884 students, who participated in one or more of 18 highly rated MOOCs. Highly rated MOOCs were sampled because they exemplify good practices or teaching strategies. We selected highly rated MOOCs from Coursetalk, an open user-driven aggregator and discovery website that allows students to search and review various MOOCs. We defined a highly rated MOOC as a free online course that received an overall five-star course quality rating, and received at least 50 reviews from different learners within a specific subject area. We described six specific themes found across the entire data corpus: (a) structure and pace, (b) video, (c) instructor, (d) content and resources, (e) interaction and support, and (f) assignment and assessment. The findings of this study provide valuable insight into factors that students find engaging in large-scale open online courses.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherAthabasca University: Open Access. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.irrodl.org/-
dc.relation.ispartofThe International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning-
dc.subjectMOOCs-
dc.subjectmassive open online courses-
dc.subjectengagement-
dc.subjecttext mining-
dc.subjectmachine learning-
dc.titleUnderstanding Student Engagement in Large Scale Open Online Courses: A Machine Learning Facilitated Analysis of Student’s Reflections in18 Highly-Rated MOOCs-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailHew, KFT: kfhew@hku.hk-
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dc.identifier.doi10.19173/irrodl.v19i3.3596-
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dc.identifier.hkuros304057-
dc.identifier.volume19-
dc.identifier.issue3-
dc.publisher.placeCanada-
dc.identifier.issnl1492-3831-

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