Paper Info
Title
Who are the top contributors in a MOOC? Relating participants' performance and contributions
Abstract
AbstractThe role of social tools in massive open online courses MOOCs is essential as they connect participants. Of all the participants in an MOOC, top contributors are the ones who more actively contribute via social tools. This article analyses and reports empirical data from five different social tools pertaining to an actual MOOC to characterize top contributors and provide some insights aimed at facilitating their early detection. The results of this analysis show that top contributors have better final scores than the rest. In addition, there is a moderate positive correlation between participants' overall performance measured in terms of final scores and the number of posts submitted to the five social tools. This article also studies the effect of participants' gender and scores as factors that can be used for the early detection of top contributors. The analysis shows that gender is not a good predictor and that taking the scores of the first assessment activities of each type test and peer assessment in the case study results in a prediction that is not substantially improved by adding subsequent activities. Finally, better predictions based on scores are obtained for aggregate contributions in the five social tools than for individual contributions in each social tool.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1111/jcal.12127
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
contributions,learning analytics,MOOC,performance,social tools
Educational technology,Social psychology,Early detection,Social media,Peer assessment,Learning analytics,Computer science,Knowledge management,Positive correlation,Applied psychology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
3
0266-4909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.63
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlos Alario-Hoyos118130.68
Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino218922.13
Mar Pérez-Sanagustín328529.92
Carlos Delgado Kloos41121172.07
Hugo A. Parada G.5818.42