1) The document discusses gauging learner adherence to the designed learning path in MOOCs. It explores how students interact with course videos and their behavior patterns. 2) A small subset of 8% of learners display learning transfer in MOOCs, consistent with existing findings from workplace and classroom settings. 3) Before adaptive learning systems can be effective, baselines must be established for the intended learning path and students' natural behaviors in the course. Addressing differences between these baselines can improve adaptive instruction.

1. Gauging MOOC Learners’
Adherence to the Designed
Learning Path
Dan Davis
Web Information Systems
EEMCS, Delft University of Technology

2. WIS.Lambda
Using and advancing user modeling techniques in the context
of open online education at scale in developing a learner
modeling-focused approach to learning analytics

3. Learning transfer in MOOCs
- RQ: To what extent do learners transfer the learned knowledge in
practice?
- Major findings
- A small subset of learners (8%) display learning transfer.
- Existing learning transfer findings from the workplace and
classroom setting mostly also hold in the MOOC setting.
edX GitHub
Transfer
Learning Application

4. Searching as Learning
Learning
Searching
Complex
search tasks
MOOCS
occur naturally
RQ1: At what scale do existing
approaches for searching break
down?
RQ2: How can large-scale
collaboration be facilitated?

5. Lambda.Dan
How does the design of the online learning environment affect
student engagement and success?
● Learning Path study: explores the extent to which students adhere to the
designed learning path
○ To help (instructors) understand student behavior
● Learning Tracker: provides students a dashboard as a source of feedback
to stimulate metacognition and promote self-regulated learning
○ To make students more aware of their own behavior

10. Approach
1. Video Interactions
2. Behavior Pattern Chains
3. Event Type Transitions

11. 1. Video Interactions

12. 2. Behavior Pattern Chains

13. 3. Event Type Transitions

14. Conclusion
Before adaptive learning systems can reach their potential, two important
baselines must be established:
1. the precise learning path the instructor wants the student to follow and
2. students’ natural behavior within the course.
Adaptive instruction will be most effective when the differences between
these two baselines are both identified and addressed.

15. Thank you!
Dan Davis
Web Information Systems
EEMCS, Delft University of Technology