At present, MOOCs are rapidly emerging throughout the country which bring great challenges as well opportunities to foreign language teaching. Foreign learners can learn better through MOOCs. However, teaching effect of is directly determined by learners’ autonomous learning ability. Therefore, this article discusses relevant theories learning, analyzes on platform, and proposes methods promote...

Adult education, especially teacher is one of the most important issues in Turkey order to increase quality education and keep up with countries which aim become competitive knowledge-based economy world. Therefore, universities started improve their distance learning provisions by using massive open online courses (MOOCs). The purpose this study understand candidates’ opinions on MOOCs satisfa...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together thousands of people from different geographies and demographic backgrounds – but to date, little is known about how they learn or communicate. We introduce a new content-analysed MOOC dataset and use Bayesian Non-negative Matrix Factorization (BNMF) to extract communities of learners based on the nature of their online forum posts. We see that ...

Dear Sir, The revolutionary forces at play in medical education are full steam ahead. From PBL, TBL and the flipped classroom, which has barely had time to cement itself we might add, we are now faced with the prospect of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and synchronous massive online courses (SMOCs). MOOCs or massive open online courses are still fairly premature in the field of medicine wi...

In this paper, we describe a novel methodology, grounded in techniques from the field of machine learning, for modeling emerging social structure as it develops in threaded discussion forums, with an eye towards application in the threaded discussions of massive open online courses (MOOCs). This modeling approach integrates two simpler, well established prior techniques, namely one related to s...