Planning prompts increase and forecast course completion in massive open online courses

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 464-473

  Yeomans, Michael ^a   Reich, Justin ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning analytics; MOOCs; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FORECASTING; MOTIVATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

LEARNING ANALYTICS; LEARNING GOALS; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOCS; NATURAL FIELDS; PURSUIT DOMAIN; STUDENT SUCCESS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 85016516377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3027385.3027416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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