Engaging with massive online courses

WWW 2014 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 687-697

  Anderson, Ashton ^a   Huttenlocher, Daniel ^b   Kleinberg, Jon ^b   Leskovec, Jure ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Badges; MOOCs; Online engagement

Indexed keywords

WORLD WIDE WEB;

BADGES; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; LOW-ACHIEVING STUDENTS; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOCS; ONLINE ENGAGEMENT; RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84908216003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2566486.2568042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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