MOOC learner behaviors by country and culture; An exploratory analysis

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 127-134

  Liu, Zhongxiu ^a   Brown, Rebecca ^a   Lynch, Collin F ^a   Barnes, Tiffany ^a   Baker, Ryan ^b   Bergner, Yoav ^c   McNamara, Danielle ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; LARGE DATASET; STUDENTS;

ACTIVITY PROFILE; CULTURAL ANALYSIS; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; ON-LINE EDUCATION; STUDENT PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THREE DIMENSIONS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 85016462437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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