Analysing gamification elements in educational environments using an existing Gamification taxonomy

AM Toda, ACT Klock, W Oliveira, PT Palomino… - Smart Learning …, 2019 - Springer
Gamification has been widely employed in the educational domain over the past eight years
when the term became a trend. However, the literature states that gamification still lacks …

Understanding dropouts in MOOCs

W Feng, J Tang, TX Liu - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2019 - aaai.org
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have developed rapidly in recent years, and have
attracted millions of online users. However, a central challenge is the extremely high dropout …

Using multi-platform learning analytics to compare regional and global MOOC learning in the Arab world

JA Ruipérez-Valiente, S Halawa, R Slama… - Computers & Education, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent studies of massive open online courses (MOOCs) have focused on global providers
such as edX, Coursera, and FutureLearn, with less attention to local initiatives that target …

Predicting MOOCs dropout using only two easily obtainable features from the first week's activities

A Alamri, M Alshehri, A Cristea, FD Pereira… - … Tutoring Systems: 15th …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract While Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) platforms provide knowledge in a
new and unique way, the very high number of dropouts is a significant drawback. Several …

A brief survey of deep learning approaches for learning analytics on MOOCs

Z Sun, A Harit, J Yu, AI Cristea, L Shi - … , ITS 2021, Virtual Event, June 7–11 …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) systems have become prevalent in recent
years and draw more attention, ao, due to the coronavirus pandemic's impact. However …

Early dropout prediction for programming courses supported by online judges

FD Pereira, E Oliveira, A Cristea, D Fernandes… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2019 - Springer
Many educational institutions have been using online judges in programming classes,
amongst others, to provide faster feedback for students and to reduce the teacher's …

Towards designing profitable courses: predicting student purchasing behaviour in MOOCs

M Alshehri, A Alamri, AI Cristea, CD Stewart - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Since their 'official'emergence in 2012 (Gardner and Brooks 2018), massive open online
courses (MOOCs) have been growing rapidly. They offer low-cost education for both …

Macro MOOC learning analytics: exploring trends across global and regional providers

JA Ruipérez-Valiente, M Jenner, T Staubitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have opened new educational possibilities for
learners around the world. Most of the research and spotlight has been concentrated on a …

Online course recommendation using deep convolutional neural network with negative sequence mining

M Gao, Y Luo, X Hu - Wireless Communications and Mobile …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has been criticized for low completion rates, and one
of the major reasons is that it fails to offer personalized course recommendations for different …

Predicting dropout in programming MOOCs through demographic insights

J Swacha, K Muszyńska - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained widespread popularity for their
potential to offer education to an unlimited global audience. However, they also face a …