{"title":"Discourse analysis to improve the effective engagement of MOOC videos","authors":"Thushari Atapattu, K. Falkner","doi":"10.1145/3027385.3029470","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Lecture videos are amongst the most commonly used instructional methods in present Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). As the main form of instruction, students' engagement behaviour with MOOC videos directly impacts the students' success or failure. This research focuses on an in-depth analysis of 1.5 million video interactions (e.g. pause, seek video) of a Programming MOOC. Our video-by-video analysis explores the rationale behind the time-wise variation of video interactions. We aim to analyse discourse features (e.g. syntactic simplicity of text, and speaking rate) and their correlation with the video interaction patterns. This paper presents preliminary results and educational video design implications.","PeriodicalId":160897,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3027385.3029470","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
Abstract
Lecture videos are amongst the most commonly used instructional methods in present Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). As the main form of instruction, students' engagement behaviour with MOOC videos directly impacts the students' success or failure. This research focuses on an in-depth analysis of 1.5 million video interactions (e.g. pause, seek video) of a Programming MOOC. Our video-by-video analysis explores the rationale behind the time-wise variation of video interactions. We aim to analyse discourse features (e.g. syntactic simplicity of text, and speaking rate) and their correlation with the video interaction patterns. This paper presents preliminary results and educational video design implications.