Bringing student backgrounds online: MOOC user demographics, site usage, and online learning

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  DeBoer, Jennifer ^a   Stump, Glenda S ^a   Seaton, Daniel ^a   Ho, Andrew ^b   Pritchard, David E ^a   Breslow, Lori ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

MOOCs; Online learning; Regression; Social capital

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; LEARNING MATERIALS; MOOCS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION METHODS; ONLINE LEARNING; REGRESSION; SOCIAL CAPITALS; STUDENT EXPERIENCES;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 85084012874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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