School of Computing

Topics in MOOC Research

NUS SoC, 2015/2016, Semester II first half
CS 6101 - Exploration of Computer Science Research

Last updated: July 3, 2018 - This is section of the course is over. Please visit the website for the current iteration of the course.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 12:51:16 PM SGT - Initial page

Meeting Time

Thursdays, 1-2pm in Min's office (AS6 #05-12)

People

Jeffry Hartanto
Shang Xindi
Guest: Muthu Chandrasekaran

Syllabus

Date	Presenter	Readings
Week 3 (28 Jan)	Introduction: Min-Yen Kan	Min's slides on NUS MOOC Research NUS HCI's L.IVE Video NUS HCI's NoteVideo Video
Week 4 (4 Feb)	Muthu Chandrasekaran Presentation Slides	Ramesh et al. (2014) Understanding MOOC Discussion Forums using Seeded LDA Ramesh et al. (2015) Weakly Supervised Models of Aspect-Sentiment for Online Course Discussion Forums Chaturvedi et al. (2014) Predicting Instructor's Intervention in MOOC forums Chandrasekaran et al. (2015) Learning instructor intervention from MOOC forums: Early Results and Issues
Week 5 (11 Feb)	Min-Yen Kan	Arguello and Shaffer (2015) Predicting Speech Acts in MOOC Forum Posts. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web and Social Media. Ezen-Can et al. (2015) Unsupervised modeling for understanding MOOC discussion forums: a learning analytics approach. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge (LAK '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 146-150. Wen et al. (2014) Sentiment analysis in MOOC discussion forums: What does it tell us. Proceedings of educational data mining. Hecking et al. (2015) Uncovering the Structure of Knowledge Exchange in a MOOC Discussion Forum. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015. ACM, 2015.
Week 6 (18 Feb)	Shang Xindi Presentation Slides	Kim et al. (2014) Data-driven interaction techniques for improving navigation of educational videos. Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST) Weir et al. (2015) Learnersourcing subgoal labels for how-to videos. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '15) Chorianopoulos (2013) Collective intelligence within web video. Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences 3.1. pp 1-16. Kim et al. (2014) Understanding in-video dropouts and interaction peaks in online lecture videos. Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Learning@ scale conference.
Recess Week
Week 7 (3 Mar)	Jeffry Hartanto Presentation Slides	Li et al. (2015) MOOC Video Interaction Patterns: What Do They Tell Us?, Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World, LNCS Vol 9307, Springer Yang et al. (2015) Exploring the Effect of Confusion in Discussion Forums of Massive Open Online Courses, Learning at Scale '15 Guo et al. (2014) How Video Production Affects Student Engagement: An Empirical Study of MOOC Videos, Learning at Scale '14 Shi et al. (2015) VisMOOC: Visualizing Video Clickstream Data from Massive Open Online Courses, IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium '15, April, Hangzhou, China