Monitoring MOOCs: Which information sources do instructors value?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 79-88

  Stephens Martinez, Kristin ^a   Hearst, Marti A ^a   Fox, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

E learning; Instructor support; Massive open online courses; MOOCs; Visualizations

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; ITERATIVE METHODS; STUDENTS; SURVEYS; VISUALIZATION;

DISCUSSION FORUM; INFORMATION DISPLAY; INFORMATION SOURCES; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOCS; NOVEL VISUALIZATIONS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84899690185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556325.2566246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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