Are MOOC forums changing?

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 340-349

  Poquet, Oleksandra ^a   Dowell, Nia ^b   Brooks, Christopher ^b   Dawson, Shane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Forum use; MOOCs; Social learning; Trends

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

FORUM USE; HIGHER EDUCATION; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; MOOCS; ONLINE COURSE; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; SOCIAL LEARNING; TRENDS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 85045914130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3170358.3170416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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