Exploring the effect of confusion in discussion forums of massive open online courses

L@S 2015 - 2nd ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 121-130

  Yang, Diyi ^a   Wen, Miaomiao ^a   Howley, Iris ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a   Rosé, Carolyn ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confusion; Massive open online courses (MOOC); Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; STUDENTS;

CLASSIFICATION MODELS; CLICKSTREAM DATA; CONFUSION; DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT; DISCUSSION FORUM; LEARNING PROCESS; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84928012763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2724660.2724677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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