The engage taxonomy: SDT-based measurable engagement indicators for MOOCs and their evaluation (2023)
Journal Article
Cristea, A. I., Alamri, A., Alshehri, M., Dwan Pereira, F., Toda, A. M., Harada T. de Oliveira, E., & Stewart, C. (2023). The engage taxonomy: SDT-based measurable engagement indicators for MOOCs and their evaluation. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-023-09374-x

Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) platforms are considered a distinctive way to deliver a modern educational experience, open to a worldwide public. However, student engagement in MOOCs is a less explored area, although it is known that MOOCs suffer... Read More about The engage taxonomy: SDT-based measurable engagement indicators for MOOCs and their evaluation.

Adopting Automatic Machine Learning for Temporal Prediction of Paid Certification in MOOCs (2022)
Book Chapter
Alshehri, M., Alamri, A., & Cristea, A. I. (2022). Adopting Automatic Machine Learning for Temporal Prediction of Paid Certification in MOOCs. In M. Mercedes Rodrigo, N. Matsuda, A. I. Cristea, & V. Dimitrova (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education (717-723). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11644-5_73

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms have been growing exponentially, offering worldwide low-cost educational content. Recent literature on MOOC learner analytics has been carried out around predicting either students’ dropout, academic perfor... Read More about Adopting Automatic Machine Learning for Temporal Prediction of Paid Certification in MOOCs.

MOOCs Paid Certification Prediction Using Students Discussion Forums (2022)
Book Chapter
Alshehri, M., & Cristea, A. I. (2022). MOOCs Paid Certification Prediction Using Students Discussion Forums. In M. Mercedes Rodrigo, N. Matsuda, A. I. Cristea, & V. Dimitrova (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium (542-545). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_111

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been suffering a very level of low course certification (less than 1% of the total number of enrolled students on a given online course opt to purchase its certificate), although MOOC platforms have been offer... Read More about MOOCs Paid Certification Prediction Using Students Discussion Forums.

Predicting Certification in MOOCs based on Students’ Weekly Activities (2021)
Book Chapter
Alshehri, M., Alamri, A., & Cristea, A. I. (2021). Predicting Certification in MOOCs based on Students’ Weekly Activities. In A. I. Cristea, & C. Troussas (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 17th International Conference, ITS 2021, Virtual Event, June 7–11, 2021, Proceedings (173-185). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80421-3_20

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been growing rapidly, offering low-cost knowledge for both learners and content providers. However, currently there is a very low level of course purchasing (less than 1% of the total number of enrolled studen... Read More about Predicting Certification in MOOCs based on Students’ Weekly Activities.

Towards Designing Profitable Courses: Predicting Student Purchasing Behaviour in MOOCs (2021)
Journal Article
Alshehri, M., Alamri, A., Cristea, A. I., & Stewart, C. D. (2021). Towards Designing Profitable Courses: Predicting Student Purchasing Behaviour in MOOCs. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 31(2), 215-233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00246-2

Since their ‘official’ emergence in 2012 (Gardner and Brooks 2018), massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been growing rapidly. They offer low-cost education for both students and content providers; however, currently there is a very low level of... Read More about Towards Designing Profitable Courses: Predicting Student Purchasing Behaviour in MOOCs.

How is learning fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs fine-grained temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Cristea, A., Alshehri, M., Alamri, A., Kayama, M., Stewart, C., & Shi, L. (2018). How is learning fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs fine-grained temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers. In B. Andersson, B. Johansson, S. Carlsson, C. Barry, M. Lang, H. Linger, & C. Schneider (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018), Education Track, Lund, Sweden, August 22-24, 2018

Data-intensive analysis of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is popular. Researchers have been proposing various parameters conducive to analysis and prediction of student behaviour and outcomes in MOOCs, as well as different methods to analyse and... Read More about How is learning fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs fine-grained temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers.

How is Learning Fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs Fine-grained Temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers and Designers (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Cristea, A. I., Alamri, A., Kayama, M., Stewart, C., Alshehri, M., & Shi, L. (2018). How is Learning Fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs Fine-grained Temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers and Designers. In B. Andersson, B. Johansson, S. Carlsson, C. Barry, M. Lang, H. Linger, & C. Schneider (Eds.), Information Systems Development: Designing Digitalization (ISD2018 Proceedings)

Data-intensive analysis of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is popular. Researchers have been proposing various parameters conducive to analysis and prediction of student behaviour and outcomes in MOOCs, as well as different methods to analyse and... Read More about How is Learning Fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs Fine-grained Temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers and Designers.