This work in progress paper investigates if timely feedback increases learners' passing rate in a MOOC. An experiment conducted with 2,421 learners in the Coursera platform tests if weekly messages sent to groups of learners with the same probability of ...

Ensuring that students are fully informed about course content and policies is always a challenge, but online education at scale adds additional complications. In this paper we present observations about the place of the syllabus in education at scale, ...

Within the last year, the number of students who participate in online learning platforms has exploded. The transition to online platforms has moved discussion out of the classroom and onto digital spaces. To support this transition we aim to create a ...

Plagiarism in computer science programs remains a problem at many universities. Programming assignments lend themselves to unpermitted collaboration: students can share code or find solutions from past semesters through simple internet searches. ...

Open-ended e-learning environments allow for explorative behaviour in challenging scenarios and hence, foster problem-solving competences. The web-based office simulation LUCA (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) addresses ...

In the discussion forums of massive open online courses (MOOCs), cognitive processing (e.g., insight, certain) is considered an essential factor that can affect learners' learning outcomes, but the relationship between them has not been thoroughly ...

One of the major criticisms of efforts towards offering education at scale has been the Trap of Routine Assessment, the risk that student assessment will suffer from becoming excessively simplified in service of automation and scale. In this research, ...

Computer science pedagogy has overwhelmingly favored problem-solving practice over methods of engagement like worked-out example study especially in advanced classes. This is due to the belief that while these alternative methods may improve student ...

Online tutoring is an increasingly popular learning and business model, which matches students with amateur tutors recruited through a platform. While such platforms offer a unique opportunity to study how online and on-demand learning happens at scale, ...

Educators and researchers in online education have grappled with not only how to increase course completion but also how to make a broader impact that goes beyond online courses, such as course participants' real-world applications of the learned ...

Although MicroMasters courses differ from traditional undergraduate level MOOCs in student demographics, course design, and outcomes, the various aspects of this type of program have not yet been sufficiently investigated. This study aims to pave the ...

Public health research has developed a deep understanding of ways to help people live healthier lives through scalable interventions that change their behaviors. This work offers valuable insights for supporting learners in educational contexts, ...

Drawbacks of online education, especially at scale, include the isolation and loss of community that come with taking classes from one's home rather than in a typical coordinated classroom. In this series of studies, we explore the potential of an ...