This was our first week as interns working on the Future Learn MOOC data visualisation project. During this time we became acquainted with the general goals of the research and met some of the people that are involved with it. However, the specific project requirements will be discussed with the other researchers over the course of the following weeks.<\/p>\n
Most of\u00a0our work\u00a0for this initial week was\u00a0comprised of reading the same set of papers related to MOOC data mining, analysis and organisation. The remainder of this post consists of our individual accounts of the research we have done.<\/p>\n
Lubo<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Most of the papers that I read this week came from the initial list of recommended reading\u00a0given to us by our supervisor. Following is\u00a0a brief overview of the goals and findings of each of these papers:<\/p>\n The research I have conducted during this week has helped me to familiarise myself with the concept of MOOCs data visualisation and analysis and the challenges associated with them. More broadly, it has given me an insight into educational data mining and learning analytics. However, there is still an abundance of research that needs to be done. I have found that I am lacking in knowledge of statistics which prevents me from fully understanding some of the papers. In addition, there is a plethora of possible visualisation tools and methods available\u00a0so becoming familiar with them and choosing the right ones in the available project time will prove to be challenging.<\/p>\n Apart from paper reading this week I also completed the first three weeks of the Doing Your Research Project MOOC to become acquainted with the structure of a typical MOOC on the Future Learn platform.<\/p>\n Lin<\/strong>:<\/p>\n A great number\u00a0of researches are trying\u00a0to find a suitable way to help instructors of MOOCs understand and analyse the interactions and performance of students. Because of the enormous amount of students enrolling in MOOCs, it is a big challenge for scientists to use this data. In the paper “MOOCdb: Developing Data Standards for MOOC Data Science”, the authors\u00a0propose MOOCdb to manage data. MOOCdb adopts various strategies to make people use data more efficiently. For example, standardize data, data from different resources will be formatted in same way finally. In addition, what information is important and how it\u00a0helps instructors to analyse the interactions of students are problems as well. Some researches propose that students’\u00a0interactions with courses should be determined\u00a0by their grades and duration. Other researches realize different interactive patterns will also affect students\u2019 performance. In Ayse\u2019s paper, she proposes a strength value which can be worked out and predict the friendship between two students. It is quite interesting opinion. Although I have seen various ideas so far, it seems that it is not quite sufficient for me to do our project. Next week I plan to read more papers and do more research\u00a0in this field.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was our first week as interns working on the Future Learn MOOC data visualisation project. During this time we became acquainted with the general goals of the research and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[892479,892462],"tags":[892488],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interns","category-mooc-observatory","tag-interns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TQ9P-2p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n