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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Towards a Characterization of Educational Material: An Analysis of Coursera Resources

Authors : Carlo De Medio, Fabio Gasparetti, Carla Limongelli, Matteo Lombardi, Alessandro Marani, Filippo Sciarrone, Marco Temperini

Published in: Emerging Technologies for Education

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

When teachers are surfing the Web to search suitable learning material for their courses it would be very important that web resources were characterized to restrict the scope of the search. Hence, it arises the need of finding characterizing properties for learning materials. This paper proposes an initial reflection on this issue. We exploit the huge potential of the MOOC, in particular Coursera, to discover new educational information that might characterize material of MOOCs. This goal is achieved by means of data mining techniques. Two types of features about resources have been discovered: teaching context and resource attributes. The resulting knowledge can be very helpful for a more accurate recommendation of resources to the particular teaching context of an instructor, as well as improving the creation and arrangement of learning activities.

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Metadata
Title
Towards a Characterization of Educational Material: An Analysis of Coursera Resources
Authors
Carlo De Medio
Fabio Gasparetti
Carla Limongelli
Matteo Lombardi
Alessandro Marani
Filippo Sciarrone
Marco Temperini
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Emerging Technologies for Education

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-52835-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-52836-6

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_58

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