Initial Experiences with Small Group Discussions in MOOCs

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Seongtaek Lim, Derrick Coetzee, Bjorn Hartmann, Armando Fox, and Marti A. Hearst

  • Classroom-based peer learning relies on students being in the same place at the same time to form peer discussion groups, but this is rarely true for online students in MOOCs.
  • We built a soft- ware tool that facilitates chat-based peer learning in MOOCs by 1) automatically forming ad-hoc discussion groups and 2) scaffolding the interactions between students in these groups.

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