• DocumentCode
    239806
  • Title

    Does MOOC really work effectively

  • Author

    Di Chen ; Yunping Feng ; Zihao Zhao ; Jianwei Jiang ; Jianbo Yu

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Software, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    19-20 Dec. 2014
  • Firstpage
    272
  • Lastpage
    277
  • Abstract
    Online education has gained great attention in recent years. MOOCs allow people to take courses with no limits on time and geographic locations. But with the rapid development of online education, few people put emphasis on the quality of online education. More people concentrate on the spreading and expansion. There is still much to study and talk about. The paper builds a distributed data warehouse and analyzes the course data from Coursera. It measures the real quality and effects of online education in country distribution, homework completion, grading policy and peer assessments. The paper introduces a new grading policy for peer assessment and talks about the current problems and the future development of MOOCs.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; data analysis; data warehouses; distributed databases; educational courses; Coursera; MOOC; country distribution; course data analysis; distributed data warehouse; grading policy; homework completion; massive open online course; online education; peer assessments; Data warehouses; Distributed databases; Educational institutions; History; Servers; Standards; Coursera; MOOCs; Peer Assessment;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    MOOC, Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Patiala
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MITE.2014.7020287
  • Filename
    7020287