The civic mission of MOOCs: Measuring engagement across political differences in forums

L@S 2016 - Proceedings of the 3rd 2016 ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1-10

  Reich, Justin ^a   Stewart, Brandon ^b   Mavon, Kimia ^c   Tingley, Dustin ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c Harvard Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic education; Discourse; MOOCs; Political ideology; Structural topic model; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

DISCOURSE; MOOCS; POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES; TEXT ANALYSIS; TOPIC MODELING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84969932175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2876034.2876045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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