Monitoring MOOCs: Which Information Sources Do Instructors Value?

Kristin Stephens-Martinez, Marti A. Hearst, Armando Fox

  • Quantitative data sources such as grades, although useful, are not sufficient.
  • Understanding the activity in discussion forums and student surveys was useful.
  • Chat logs were not seen as useful.
  • The same sources of information were seen as useful as found in surveys of smaller online courses.
  • Visualization techniques were responded to positively for use both while the course is running and for planning a revision of the course.

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