Determining how learners use MOOCs effectively is critical to providing feedback to instructors, schools, and policy-makers on this highly scalable technology. However, drawing inferences about student learning outcomes in MOOCs has proven to be quite difficult due to large amounts of missing data (of various kinds) and to the diverse population of MOOC participants. Thus significant methodolog...

April 30, 2005 Instructions (please read before you proceed): 1. Please read all problems before starting your answers. Problems can be answered in any order. 2. Attempt all five problems and attempt all parts within each problem. 3. Answers can be written on question sheets or separate sheets or a combination. Each sheet should have a page number and problem number. On the first sheet write yo...

1 0 2 0 1 1 (a) Suppose a2 = (1, 2, 2) , a3 = (−2, 0, 1) , a4 = (0, 4, 5) , a5 = (0, 1, 1) . Compute the ranks of A and B. Explain why B can not be obtained from A by a finite number of elementary row operations. Solution: The first 3 columns of B are independent, so its column space has dimension 3, thus rank(B)=3. The second, third and fifth column of A are independent, so its column space ha...

I would like to hear comments from more experienced experimental researchers about standard practices for recruiting and compensating participants in consumer and marketing experiments. What are the pros and cons of using student participants? (I know there was a debate about this in the literature a few years ago, but what is the current prevailing opinion?) Is there a difference between using...

Horton DM, Wiederman SD, Saint DA. Assessment outcome is weakly correlated with lecture attendance: influence of learning style and use of alternative materials. Adv Physiol Educ 36: 108–115, 2012; doi:10.1152/advan.00111.2011.—The relation between lecture attendance and learning is surprisingly weak, and the role of learning styles in this is poorly understood. We hypothesized that 1) academic...

Teaching and Learning process of an educational institution needs to be monitored and effectively analysed for enhancement. Teaching and Learning is a vital element for an educational institution. It is also one of the criteria set by majority of the Accreditation Agencies around the world. Learning analytics and Educational Data Mining are relatively new. Learning analytics refers to the colle...

Numerical Methods is a course that can be conducted using workshops and group discussion. This study has been implemented on undergraduate students of level two at the Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia. The Numerical Method course has been delivered to two Sections 1 and 2 with 44 and 22 students in each section, respectively. Systematic steps have been followed ...

In this report, we present the ideas behind the notion of quantum random walks. We further restrict our attention to the paper ”Search via quantum walk” by Magniez, Nayak, Roland and Santha and give some general insights and intuition behind their work. The report is intended for the final exam evaluation in the subject ”Quantum Information and Computation”.

This study developed a web-based multimedia whiteboard system to help students learning with mathematical problem solving. The purpose is to promote a new online mathematical learning model that students not only use electronic whiteboard to write down their mathematical problem solving solutions but also use voice recording tool to give oral explanations about their thinking behind the solutio...

Engineering education programs are looking for effective ways to more efficiently deliver engineering education to an increasingly heterogeneous customer base, including nontraditional students, some of whom are working full time. Online courses and programs can be one option to meet the needs of this new customer base; however, educators need to ensure that the quality of the educational exper...