The invention of the movie camera was initially seen as a way to reach "massive" by filming plays; we are in an equivalent stage with our early MOOCs. Thinking outside the box of "teaching" is essential to realizing learning at scale. Virtual worlds and ...

Ensuring authorship in online taken exams is a major challenge for e-learning in general and MOOC's in particular. In this paper, we introduce and evaluate a method to verify student identities using stylometry. We present a carefully composed feature ...

We use visual analytics to explore participation in five MOOCs at the University of Maryland. In some of these courses, our analysis reveals interesting clustering patterns of student behavior. For other courses, visualizations provide "color" to help ...

Coding style is important to teach to beginning programmers, so that bad habits don't become permanent. This is often done manually at the University level because automated Python static analyzers cannot accurately grade based on a given rubric. ...

With instructional methods such as MOOCs and flipped classrooms rapidly gaining popularity and school budget cuts becoming more prevalent across the nation, increasing the usability of Open Educational Resources (OER) is highly relevant for today's ...

Google Research recently tested a massive online class model for an internal engineering education program, with machine learning as the topic, that blended theoretical concepts and Google-specific software tool tutorials. The goal of this training was ...

Online learners need various supports to survive, and it is especially true in the context of MOOCs. Yet, studies documenting the learning progress as a function of learner support are at its inception. Based on self-determination theory and via weekly ...

Due to the recent emergence of massive open online courses (MOOCs), students and teachers are gaining unprecedented access to high-quality educational content. However, many questions remain on how best to utilize that content in a classroom ...

Open-ended homework problems such as coding assignments give students a broad range of freedom for the design of solutions. We aim to use the diversity in correct solutions to enhance student learning by automatically suggesting alternate solutions. Our ...

Hints are sometimes used in online learning system to help students when they are having difficulties. However, in all of the systems we are aware of, the hints are fixed ahead of time and do not depend on the unsuccessful attempts the student has ...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide learning materials and automated assessments for large numbers of virtual users. Because every interaction is recorded, we can longitudinally model performance over the course of the class. We create a panel ...

This paper discusses learning at scale from the perspective of two UK Universities engaging in technology enhanced learning. Three case studies are used to illustrate ways in which scale has been achieved. There is diversity in how scale is supported ...

Massive online courses introduced Community TAs (CTAs) to help scale teaching staff support. CTAs are former top students who return as volunteer course staff. We studied CTAs in 3 classes on Coursera, including interviews and surveys from a Human-...

In the physical classroom, peer interactions motivate students and expand their perspective. We suggest that synchronous peer interaction can benefit massive online courses as well. Talkabout organizes students into video discussion groups and allows ...

Maintaining and cultivating student engagement is a prerequisite for MOOCs to have broad educational impact. Understanding student engagement as a course progresses helps characterize student learning patterns and can aid in minimizing dropout rates, ...

Video lectures are nowadays widely used by growing numbers of learners all over the world. Nevertheless, learners' interactions with the videos are not readily available, because online video platforms do not share them. In this paper, we present an ...

Computer-based learning environments can provide valuable resources for learning at scale, but students in these environments might learn without an instructor. Subgoal labels have been used in worked examples in STEM domains to help a learner ...

Because MOOCs offer complete logs of student activities for each student there is hope that it may be possible to find out which activities are the most useful for learning. We start this quest by examining correlations between time spent on specific ...

This research investigates the impact professors, and other instructional staff, have on student content knowledge acquisition in a physical science MOOC offered through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An A/B test was used to randomly ...

In Fall 2013 we offered an open online Introduction to Recommender Systems through Coursera, while simultaneously offering a for-credit version of the course on-campus using the Coursera platform and a flipped classroom instruction model. As the goal of ...