Which Answer is Best? Predicting Accepted Answers in MOOC Forums

WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 679-684

  Jenders, Maximilian ^a   Krestel, Ralf ^a   Naumann, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

answer recommendation; forum; forum posts; massive open online course; mooc; reputation system

Indexed keywords

WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANSWER RECOMMENDATION; COMMUNITY-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING; COURSE MATERIAL; DISCUSSION FORUM; FORUM; FORUM POST; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOC; ONLINE COURSE; REPUTATION SYSTEMS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 85030098386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2872518.2890567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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