An Analysis of Cognitive Learning Context in MOOC Forum Messages
Late-Breaking Works: Collaborative Technologies
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Wong, Jian-Syuan
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Pursel, Bart
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Divinsky, Anna
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Jansen, Bernard J.
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.1315-1321
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: In this research, we analyze a large number of discussions of forum messages
from three MOOC courses using a keyword taxonomy approach to identify learning
processes occurring among the students. We conduct analysis on more than
100,000 forum messages from 14,647 forum threads from three MOOCs, with a
combined 200,000+ enrollment. We map messages to six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy
for cognitive learning. The results of this research indicate that learning
processes of particular cognitive learning levels could be observed within
discussions on MOOC forums. Results imply that different types of forum
communications have features associated to particular learning levels, and the
volume of higher levels of cognitive learning domains increase as the course
progresses.
