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Staging Intelligent Interventionsin MOOC Discussion ForumsAkshay AgrawalJagadish VenkatramanShane LeonardAndreas Paepcke
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An Intelligent Forum
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An Intelligent Forum
• Phase 1: Detect Confusion
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An Intelligent Forum
• Phase 1: Detect Confusion• Phase 2: Intervene Automatically
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Challenges
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Challenges
• Scale:
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Challenges
• Scale:
• Vocabulary of confusion is domain-dependent
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Challenges
• Scale:
• Vocabulary of confusion is domain-dependent
• TA overloaded
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Challenges
• Scale:
• Vocabulary of confusion is domain-dependent
• TA overloaded– lack of forum structure
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• No tagged forum datasets• Availability of large-scale forum data
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Why are forums still dumb?
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• Pre-work: Dataset– Stanford MOOCPosts
• Phase 1: Confusion Detection– Classify individual posts w.r.t. confusion
• Phase 2: Intervention–Map confused posts to video snippets
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MOOCPosts Dataset
• 30,000 posts,11 courses– Humanities/Sciences, Medicine,
Education
• Human-coded, 6 dimensions– confusion, sentiment, urgency [1-7]– opinion, question, answer [0/1]
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http://datastage.stanford.edu/StanfordMoocPosts/
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Phase 1: Detecting Confusion
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Classifier Performance
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Recap: Phase 1
Phase 2: Staging Interventions
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Interventions: Evaluation
• 20 confused posts, course in statistics
• Six recommendations for each– randomize order
• 3 human raters– Label each snippet as relevant or
irrelevant
• k-precision– precision of retrieved documents,
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YouEDU Architecture
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Classification Suitehttp://github.com/akshayka/edxclassify
MOOCPosts Datasethttp://datastage.stanford.edu/StanfordMoocPosts/
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