This paper surveys the state of the art on prediction in MOOCs through a systematic
literature review (SLR). The main objectives are: first, to identify the characteristics of the …

The booming adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) likewise poses benefits and challenges.
In this paper, we particularly focus on the bright side of AI and its promising potential to face …

Discussion forums are the primary and most widely used venue for social learning and
communication in MOOC context. There has been an interest in the last few years to study …

Although massive open online courses or MOOCs have been successful in attracting a large
number of learners, they have not been equally successful in retaining the learners to the …

This study enriched the research horizon of the social sciences and contents of MOOCs by
providing stakeholders with authentic data-driven recommendations to better conceptualize …

Predictive modeling is a core technique used in tackling various tasks in learning analytics
research, eg, classifying educational forum posts, predicting learning performance, and …

The past few years have witnessed an explosion of attention given to the bias displayed by
Machine Learning (ML) techniques towards different groups of people (eg, female vs. male) …

Automatic classifiers of educational forum posts are essential in hel** instructors
effectively implement their teaching practices and thus have been widely investigated …

Forum messages in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are the most important source
of information about the social interactions happening in these courses. Forum messages …

Learners in a massive open online course often express feelings, exchange ideas and seek
help by posting questions in discussion forums. Due to the very high learner-to-instructor …