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 …

Before the emergence of computer‐based educational systems (CBES) whose aims of
providing teaching and learning experiences to hundreds even thousands of users, an …

Abstract Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms capture the digital traces of
millions of learners and generate an avalanche of “numbers” on learner behavior in MOOCs …

A prevailing trend in CSCL literature has been the study of students' participatory roles. The
majority of existing studies examine a single collaborative task or, at most, a complete …

The capacity to foster interpersonal interactions in massive open online courses (MOOCs)
has frequently been contested, particularly when learner interactions are limited to MOOC …

The low access rate to resources and learner diversity of massive open online courses
(MOOCs) has led to a shift in MOOC resource design toward how to better support adaptive …

In recent years, the use of asynchronous discussion forums in online learning has increased
rapidly. In earlier studies, content analysis is the most-used research method in exploring …

Capturing students' behavioral patterns through analysis of sequential interaction logs is an
important task in educational data mining and could enable more effective and personalized …

There has been extensive research using centrality measures in educational settings. One
of the most common lines of such research has tested network centrality measures as …

Personalized learning builds upon the fundamental assumption of uniqueness in learning
behavior, often taken for granted. Quite surprisingly, however, the literature provides little to …