Superposter behavior in MOOC forums

L@S 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 117-126

  Huang, Jonathan ^a   Dasgupta, Anirban ^b   Ghosh, Arpita ^c   Manning, Jane ^a   Sanders, Marc ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Coursera; Data mining; Education; Massive open online course; MOOC; Online forums

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; EDUCATION; STUDENTS;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COURSERA; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOC; ONLINE FORUMS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84899667759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556325.2566249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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