TY - GEN
T1 - Topic Modeling in MOOCs
T2 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education, TALE 2021
AU - Jonson Carlon, May Kristine
AU - Asa, Anie Day DC
AU - Keerativoranan, Nopphon
AU - Nagahama, Toru
AU - Cross, Jeffrey S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Instructors create a course outline to serve as a guide for content delivery throughout the course. While contents can be adjusted based on learner feedback and performance in instructor-paced courses, but the same may not said for massive open online courses (MOOCs) that run continuously for months or years. For example, instructors cannot make drastic changes to self-paced MOOC content until the course is closed, revised, and re-released. Topic modeling was done on a microbiology MOOC to see if it can be a viable means of assessing how well the MOOC content was able to capture the course outline concepts. The same approach was applied to discussion board posts to identify which topics resonated with the learners. Topic modeling can be useful in achieving the said goals. This can be impactful in introducing improvements to the online course even before the course is revised and re-released.
AB - Instructors create a course outline to serve as a guide for content delivery throughout the course. While contents can be adjusted based on learner feedback and performance in instructor-paced courses, but the same may not said for massive open online courses (MOOCs) that run continuously for months or years. For example, instructors cannot make drastic changes to self-paced MOOC content until the course is closed, revised, and re-released. Topic modeling was done on a microbiology MOOC to see if it can be a viable means of assessing how well the MOOC content was able to capture the course outline concepts. The same approach was applied to discussion board posts to identify which topics resonated with the learners. Topic modeling can be useful in achieving the said goals. This can be impactful in introducing improvements to the online course even before the course is revised and re-released.
KW - educational data mining
KW - instructional quality assurance
KW - massive open online course
KW - topic modeling
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U2 - 10.1109/TALE52509.2021.9678621
DO - 10.1109/TALE52509.2021.9678621
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85125900976
T3 - TALE 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education, Proceedings
SP - 849
EP - 853
BT - TALE 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education, Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 5 December 2021 through 8 December 2021
ER -