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Urgency Analysis of Learners’ Comments: An Automated Intervention Priority Model for MOOC

Alrajhi, Laila; Alamri, Ahmed; Pereira, Filipe Dwan; Cristea, Alexandra I.

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Authors

Laila Alrajhi laila.m.alrajhi@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy

Filipe Dwan Pereira



Contributors

Christos Troussas
Editor

Abstract

Recently, the growing number of learners in Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) environments generate a vast amount of online comments via social interactions, general discussions, expressing feelings or asking for help. Concomitantly, learner dropout, at any time during MOOC courses, is very high, whilst the number of learners completing (completers) is low. Urgent intervention and attention may alleviate this problem. Analysing and mining learner comments is a fundamental step towards understanding their need for intervention from instructors. Here, we explore a dataset from a FutureLearn MOOC course. We find that (1) learners who write many comments that need urgent intervention tend to write many comments, in general. (2) The motivation to access more steps (i.e., learning resources) is higher in learners without many comments needing intervention, than that of learners needing intervention. (3) Learners who have many comments that need intervention are less likely to complete the course (13%). Therefore, we propose a new priority model for the urgency of intervention built on learner histories – past urgency, sentiment analysis and step access.

Citation

Alrajhi, L., Alamri, A., Pereira, F. D., & Cristea, A. I. (2021). Urgency Analysis of Learners’ Comments: An Automated Intervention Priority Model for MOOC. In A. I. Cristea, & C. Troussas (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 17th International Conference, ITS 2021, Virtual Event, June 7–11, 2021, Proceedings (148-160). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80421-3_18

Acceptance Date Mar 13, 2021
Online Publication Date Jul 9, 2021
Publication Date 2021
Deposit Date Apr 12, 2021
Publicly Available Date Apr 13, 2021
Publisher Springer Verlag
Pages 148-160
Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Series Number 12677
Book Title Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 17th International Conference, ITS 2021, Virtual Event, June 7–11, 2021, Proceedings
ISBN 9783030804206
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80421-3_18

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