Follow the successful crowd: Raising MOOC completion rates through social comparison at scale?

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 454-463

  Davis, Dan ^a   Chen, Guanliang ^a   Jivet, Ioana ^b   Hauff, Claudia ^a   Kizilcec, René F ^c   Houben, Geert Jan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; Feedback; Framing; Learning analytics; Massive open online course; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; FEEDBACK; VISUALIZATION;

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; FRAMING; LEARNING ANALYTICS; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; SOCIAL COMPARISON;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 85016506045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3027385.3027411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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