Toward Large-scale Learning Design: Categorizing Course Designs in Service of Supporting Learning Outcomes

Daniel Davis, Daniel Seaton, Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben

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Abstract

This paper applies theory and methodology from the learning design literature to large-scale learning environments through quantitative modeling of the structure and design of Massive Open Online Courses. For two institutions of higher education, we automate the task of encoding pedagogy and learning design principles for 177 courses (which accounted for for nearly 4 million enrollments). Course materials from these MOOCs are parsed and abstracted into sequences of components, such as videos and problems. Our key contributions are (i) describing the parsing and abstraction of courses for quantitative analyses, (ii) the automated categorization of similar course designs, and (iii) the identification of key structural components that show relationships between categories and learning design principles. We employ two methods to categorize similar course designs---one aimed at clustering courses using transition probabilities and another using trajectory mining. We then proceed with an exploratory analysis of relationships between our categorization and learning outcomes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationL@S 2018
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale
Place of PublicationNew York, USA
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1-10
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-5886-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventL@S '18 The Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 26 Jun 201828 Jun 2018
Conference number: 5

Conference

ConferenceL@S '18 The Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period26/06/1828/06/18

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