TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic content related feedback for MOOCs based on course domain ontology
AU - Shatnawi, Safwan
AU - Gaber, Mohamed Medhat
AU - Cocea, Mihaela
N1 - “The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10840-7_4”.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - MOOCs offer free access to educational materials, leading to large numbers of students registered in MOOCs courses. The MOOCs forums allow students to post comments and ask questions; due to the number of students, however, the course facilitators are not able to provide feedback in a timely manner. To address this problem, we identify content-knowledge related posts using a course domain ontology and provide students with timely informative automatic feedback. Moreover, we provide facilitators with feedback of students posts, such as frequent topics students ask about. Experimental results from one of the courses offered by Coursera show the potential of our approach in creating a responsive learning environment.
AB - MOOCs offer free access to educational materials, leading to large numbers of students registered in MOOCs courses. The MOOCs forums allow students to post comments and ask questions; due to the number of students, however, the course facilitators are not able to provide feedback in a timely manner. To address this problem, we identify content-knowledge related posts using a course domain ontology and provide students with timely informative automatic feedback. Moreover, we provide facilitators with feedback of students posts, such as frequent topics students ask about. Experimental results from one of the courses offered by Coursera show the potential of our approach in creating a responsive learning environment.
KW - automatic feedback
KW - topic detection
KW - ontologies
KW - clustering
KW - MOOCS
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-10840-7_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-10840-7_4
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783319108391
T3 - Lecture notes in computer science
SP - 27
EP - 35
BT - Intelligent data engineering and automated learning – IDEAL 2014
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
T2 - IDEAL Conference 2014
Y2 - 10 September 2014 through 12 September 2014
ER -