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Your click decides your fate: Inferring Information Processing and Attrition Behavior from MOOC Video Clickstream Interactions

Year: 2014

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this work, we explore video lecture interaction in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which is central to student learning experience on these educational platforms.As a research contribution, we operationalize video lecture clickstreams of students into cognitively plausible higher level behaviors, and construct a quantitative information processing index, which can aid instructors to better understand MOOC hurdles and reason about unsatisfactory learning outcomes.Our results illustrate how such a metric inspired by cognitive psychology can help answer critical questions regarding students' engagement, their future click interactions and participation trajectories that lead to in-video & course dropouts.Implications for research and practice are discussed.

DOI: 10.3115/v1/w14-4102

Authors: Tanmay Sinha, Patrick Jermann, Nan Li, Pierre Dillenbourg

Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Language: English

Topic: Online Learning and Analytics

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W1948795633

FWCI: 8.526

Cites: 40

Cited by: 223

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