Publications related to Distance education

Blending a MOOCs with interactive teaching

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Bertrand Merminod, Geoffrey Vincent

When Massive Open Online Courses became a hot topic in Europe. The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) decided to take the challenge and launched an internal call for proposals. At the Geodetic Engineering Lab, we saw a possibility to use conta ...

2015

Studying teacher orchestration load in technology-enhanced classrooms: A mixed-method approach and case study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma

Teacher orchestration of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) processes plays a major role in students' outcomes, especially in face-to-face classrooms. However, few studies look into the fine-grained details of how such orchestration unfolds, the challenges ...

Springer2015

MOOC Video Interaction Patterns: What Do They Tell Us?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Lukasz Kidzinski, Nan Li

For MOOC learners, lecture video viewing is the central learning activity. This paper reports a large-scale analysis of in-video interactions. We categorize the video behaviors into patterns by employ- ing a clustering methodology, based on the available t ...

2015

Coming Down to Earth: Helping Teachers Use 3D Virtual Worlds in Across-Spaces Learning Situations

Different approaches have explored how to provide seamless learning across multiple ICT-enabled physical and virtual spaces, including three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVW). However, these approaches present limitations that may reduce their acceptance i ...

Ieee Computer Soc, Learning Technology Task Force2015

Semi-automatic annotation of MOOC forum posts

Pierre Dillenbourg, Lukasz Kidzinski, Weizhe Liu

Massive online open courses’ (MOOCs’) students who use discussion forums have higher chances of finishing the course. However, little research has been conducted for understanding the underlying fac- tors. One of the reasons which hinders the analysis is t ...

2015

A Preparatory Analysis of Peer-Grading for a Digital Humanities MOOC

Frédéric Kaplan, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

Over the last two years, Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs) have been unexpectedly successful in convincing large number of students to pursue online courses in a variety of domains. Contrary to the "learn anytime anywhere" moto, this new generation of co ...

2014

AngeLA: Putting the Teacher in Control of Student Privacy in the Online Classroom

Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Learning analytics (LA) is often considered as a means to improve learning and learning environments by measuring student behaviour, analysing the tracked data and acting upon the results. The use of LA tools implies recording and processing of student act ...

2014

Functional Programming For All! Scaling a MOOC for Students and Professionals Alike

Martin Odersky, Philipp Haller, Lukas Rytz

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have launched a scale shift in higher education, with several individual MOOCs now boasting tens or hundreds of thousands of participants worldwide. Our MOOC on the principles of functional programming has more than 100, ...

2014

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Distance education

Blending a MOOCs with interactive teaching

Studying teacher orchestration load in technology-enhanced classrooms: A mixed-method approach and case study

MOOC Video Interaction Patterns: What Do They Tell Us?

Gaze Analysis methods for Learning Analytics

Coming Down to Earth: Helping Teachers Use 3D Virtual Worlds in Across-Spaces Learning Situations

Semi-automatic annotation of MOOC forum posts

A Preparatory Analysis of Peer-Grading for a Digital Humanities MOOC

AngeLA: Putting the Teacher in Control of Student Privacy in the Online Classroom

Two-stage online inference model for traffic pattern analysis and anomaly detection

Functional Programming For All! Scaling a MOOC for Students and Professionals Alike

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Coming Down to Earth: Helping Teachers Use 3D Virtual Worlds in Across-Spaces Learning Situations

Blending a MOOCs with interactive teaching

Studying teacher orchestration load in technology-enhanced classrooms: A mixed-method approach and case study

Two-stage online inference model for traffic pattern analysis and anomaly detection

Semi-automatic annotation of MOOC forum posts

MOOC Video Interaction Patterns: What Do They Tell Us?

Gaze Analysis methods for Learning Analytics

Functional Programming For All! Scaling a MOOC for Students and Professionals Alike

AngeLA: Putting the Teacher in Control of Student Privacy in the Online Classroom

A Preparatory Analysis of Peer-Grading for a Digital Humanities MOOC