Publications related to Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses

Transferring interactive activities in large lectures from face-to-face to online settings

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

Purpose Within higher education, there was an abrupt shift from face-to-face to online lecturing with the introduction of social distancing measures in light of a global pandemic. The purpose of this study is to enrich the connection between students and i ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Discovery and Temporal Analysis of MOOC Study Patterns

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

The large-scale and granular interaction data collected in online learning platforms such as massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide unique opportunities to better understand individuals' learning processes and could facilitate the design of personaliz ...

2019

Stimuli-based Gaze Analytics to Enhance Motivation and Learning in MOOCs

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma

The interaction with the various learners in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is often complex. Contemporary MOOC learning analytics relate with click-streams, keystrokes and other user-input variables. Such variables however, do not always capture lear ...

IEEE2019

Discovering Interaction Patterns in Online Learning Environments : A Learning Analytics Research

Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

The increasing amount of data collected in online learning environments provides unique opportunities to better understand the learning processes in different educational settings. Learning analytics research aims at understanding and optimizing learning a ...

EPFL2018

Smart Environments and Analytics on Video-Based Learning

Lukasz Kidzinski

The International Workshop of Smart Environments and Analytics on Video-Based Learning (SE@VBL) aims to connect research efforts on Video-Based Learning with Smart Environments and Analytics to create synergies between these fields. The main objective is t ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Semiautomatic 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 factors. One of the reasons which hinders the analysis is the ...

Springer-Verlag Singapore Pte Ltd2016

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

Gaze Analysis methods for Learning Analytics

Kshitij Sharma

Eye-tracking had been shown to be predictive of expertise, task-based success, task-difficulty, and the strategies involved in problem solving, both in the individual and collaborative settings. In learning analytics, eye-tracking could be used as a powerf ...

EPFL2015

Rich Open Educational Resources for Personal and Inquiry Learning. Agile Creation, Sharing and Reuse in Educational Social Media Platforms

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Wissam Halimi, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are freely accessible, openly licensed multimedia documents or interactive tools that can be typically integrated in Learning Management Systems to support courses. With social media platforms becoming the central piece of ...

2014

Personal Learning Environments as Enablers for Connectivist MOOCs

Denis Gillet

This paper presents how platforms initially designed to enable the construction of personal learning environments can help teachers and learners to aggregate their own MOOCs from resources freely available in the Cloud under Creative Commons licenses. Comp ...

2013