Social factors that contribute to attrition in MOOCs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 197-198

  Rosé, Carolyn Penstein ^a   Carlson, Ryan ^a   Yang, Diyi ^a   Wen, Miaomiao ^a   Resnick, Lauren ^b   Goldman, Pam ^b   Sherer, Jennifer ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Survival modeling

Indexed keywords

ATTRITION; DISCUSSION FORUM; OPEN ONLINE COURSE; SOCIAL FACTOR; SURVIVAL MODEL;

EID: 84899686669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556325.2567879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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