ERIC Number: EJ1155884
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 24
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Modeling MOOC Student Behavior with Two-Layer Hidden Markov Models
Geigle, Chase; Zhai, ChengXiang
Journal of Educational Data Mining, v9 n1 p1-24 2017
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide educators with an abundance of data describing how students interact with the platform, but this data is highly underutilized today. This is in part due to the lack of sophisticated tools to provide interpretable and actionable summaries of huge amounts of MOOC activity present in log data. To address this problem, we propose a student behavior representation method alongside a method for automatically discovering those student behavior patterns by leveraging the click log data that can be obtained from the MOOC platform itself. Specifically, we propose the use of a two-layer hidden Markov model (2L-HMM) to extract our desired behavior representation, and show that patterns extracted by such a 2L-HMM are interpretable and meaningful. We demonstrate that the proposed 2L-HMM can also be used to extract latent features from student behavioral data that correlate with educational outcomes.
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Student Behavior, Markov Processes, Models, Probability, Humanities Instruction, Computer Science Education
International Educational Data Mining. e-mail: jedm.editor@gmail.com; Web site: http://jedm.educationaldatamining.org/index.php/JEDM
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: DGE1144245; IIS1629161
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