Student Emotion, Co-Occurrence, and Dropout in a MOOC Context.

J Dillon, N Bosch, M Chetlur, N Wanigasekara… - … Educational Data Mining …, 2016 - ERIC
International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016ERIC
This paper discusses self-reported emotions experienced by students in a Massive Open
Online Course (MOOC) learning context. Emotions have been previously shown to be
related to learning in classrooms and laboratory studies and have even been leveraged to
improve learning. In this study, frequently occurring discrete emotions as well as frequently,
co-occurring pairs of emotions were analyzed during learning with a MOOC. Both discrete
and co-occurring emotions were related to students dropping out of the course, illustrating …
This paper discusses self-reported emotions experienced by students in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) learning context. Emotions have been previously shown to be related to learning in classrooms and laboratory studies and have even been leveraged to improve learning. In this study, frequently occurring discrete emotions as well as frequently, co-occurring pairs of emotions were analyzed during learning with a MOOC. Both discrete and co-occurring emotions were related to students dropping out of the course, illustrating the importance of student emotion in a MOOC context. [For the full proceedings, see ED592609.]
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