Visual Analysis of MOOC Forums with iForum

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 201-210

  Fu, Siwei ^a   Zhao, Jian ^b   Cui, Weiwei ^c   Qu, Huamin ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b AUTODESK RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Discussion forum; MOOC; temporal visualization; visual analytics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; VISUALIZATION;

DISCUSSION FORUM; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOC; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; NOVEL VISUALIZATIONS; TEACHING ASSISTANTS; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUAL ANALYTICS SYSTEMS;

TEACHING;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; TEACHING;

EID: 84999098037     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2598444     Document Type: Article

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