TY - GEN
T1 - Content analysis of MOOC forums
T2 - 2017 Intelligent Systems Conference, IntelliSys 2017
AU - Cohen, Anat
AU - Shimony, Udi
AU - Nachmias, Rafi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/2
Y1 - 2017/7/2
N2 - Considering the importance of social and collaborative learning, this research aims to explore the characteristics of the discourse in forums in order to have insight into learners' needs and interests in massive open online courses. This will help in developing an instructional strategy that will increase the learners' participation in forums, and their involvement in the creation of knowledge; consequently, improving learning processes. An innovative approach was taken in this study, using the Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool and Henri's content analysis model in order to analyze the learners' discourse in forums and identify their types of interactions. We hope that this approach will lead to additional understanding and shed light on the ability to create effective online learning communities, through the learners' behavior.
AB - Considering the importance of social and collaborative learning, this research aims to explore the characteristics of the discourse in forums in order to have insight into learners' needs and interests in massive open online courses. This will help in developing an instructional strategy that will increase the learners' participation in forums, and their involvement in the creation of knowledge; consequently, improving learning processes. An innovative approach was taken in this study, using the Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool and Henri's content analysis model in order to analyze the learners' discourse in forums and identify their types of interactions. We hope that this approach will lead to additional understanding and shed light on the ability to create effective online learning communities, through the learners' behavior.
KW - Natural Language Processing (NLP)
KW - collaborative learning
KW - content analysis
KW - e-learning
KW - forums
KW - social learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051120066&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IntelliSys.2017.8324235
DO - 10.1109/IntelliSys.2017.8324235
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AN - SCOPUS:85051120066
T3 - 2017 Intelligent Systems Conference, IntelliSys 2017
SP - 893
EP - 897
BT - 2017 Intelligent Systems Conference, IntelliSys 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 7 September 2017 through 8 September 2017
ER -