Mining for gold: Identifying content-related MOOC discussion threads across domains through linguistic modeling
Volume: 32, Pages: 11 - 28
Published: Jan 1, 2017
Abstract
This study addresses overload and chaos in MOOC discussion forums by developing a model to categorize threads based on whether or not they are substantially related to course content. A linguistic model was built based on manually coded starting posts in threads from a statistics MOOC, and tested on the second offering of the course, another statistics MOOC, a psychology MOOC, a physiology MOOC, and a test set of reply posts. Results showed that...
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Title
Mining for gold: Identifying content-related MOOC discussion threads across domains through linguistic modeling
Published Date
Jan 1, 2017
Volume
32
Pages
11 - 28
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