Learning at Scale 2020
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Introductory Remarks | Rene Kizilcec, Susan Singer | 09m |
Conference opens with global participation numbers and concrete session plans: 280 participants with 35% joining from outside the US, workshops and synchronous… | ||
| What My Little Pony Can Teach Us About Interest-Driven Learning | Katie Davis | 54m |
Five years of mixed methods research — nine months of ethnography, thematic coding of 4,500 reviews, and a longitudinal analysis of ~7 million fanfiction… | ||
| Affordable Degrees at Scale: New Phenomenon or New Hype? | Robert W. Schmidt | 13m |
Researchers assemble 38 MOOC-based master's and a comparison set of 163 non-MOOC master's programs, inventorying 624 courses and finding only about half of… | ||
| Two Stances, Three Genres, and Four Intractable Dilemmas for the Future of L@S | Justin Reich | 16m |
Claims that 50% of grade 6–12 courses go online by 2019 and that a few MOOCs would replace universities fail to materialize; the pandemic sends ~1 billion… | ||
| Learning Science @ Scale | Julia Huprich, PhD | 12m |
Intellum establishes a learning science team, offers 200 million enrollment records and millions of users for research, and runs two live studies: one testing… | ||
| The Synchronicity Paradox in Online Education | David A. Joyner, Qiaosi Wang, Suyash Thakare, Shan Jing, Ashok Goel, Blair MacIntyre | 15m |
Three parallel studies find a clear tradeoff: learners enroll because of asynchronous flexibility yet crave live interaction. A survey shows 49% feel isolated… | ||
| Announcement | Rene Kizilcec | 10m |
Learning at Scale 2021 moves to Potsdam and co-locates with the European MOOCs forum e‑MOOCs, running June 20–25 2021. The host institution is HPI, a private… | ||
| Awards and Closing | Alison Derbenwick Miller | 08m |
Conference closes by announcing award winners: best paper awards go to authors of "studying retrieval practice in an its" for an innovative, strong… | ||
| Using Google Search Trends to Estimate Global Patterns in Learning | Serhat Arslan, Mo Tiwari, Chris Piech | 14m |
Uses Google Trends plus a minimum mean square error estimator to reverse engineer per-country computer science literacy, producing a CSLI-s score scaled 0–1 by… | ||
| Learning to Cheat: Quantifying Changes in Score Advantage of Unproctored Assessments... | Binglin Chen, Sushmita Azad, Max Fowler, Matthew West, Craig Zilles | 14m |
Within a within-subjects study of N = 510 students taking 5 proctored and 4 unproctored exams on the same platform, a modified IRT/logistic model estimates an… | ||
| Ethics in L@S | Candace Thille, Ellen Wagner, Stephanie Teasley, Sidney D’Mello | 01h 12m |
Panel discussion explains how campuses and vendors handle learner data with concrete frameworks and examples: building a PAR federated dataset that became… | ||
| Evaluating the Fairness of Predictive Student Models Through Slicing Analysis | Josh Gardner, Christopher Brooks, Ryan Baker | 15m |
Proposes a concrete slicing procedure that measures fairness as the integral distance between subgroup ROC curves, named ABROCA, and applies it to several… | ||
| Student Engagement in Mobile Learning via Text Message | Rene Kizilcec, Max Chen | 15m |
Dataset covers 93,819 Kenyan students in grades 6, 9, and 12 (28 million platform actions, 1.5 million quiz attempts) and narrows to about 77,000 active users… | ||
| Students' Achievement of Personalized Learning Objectives in MOOCs | Tobias Rohloff, Dominic Sauer, Christoph Meinel | 15m |
A MOOC platform prototype adds three objective types (completion, topic, exploration), surfaces objectives in a modal and highlights objective items in the… | ||
| Human Languages in Source Code: Auto-Translation for Localized Instruction | Chris Piech, Sami Abu-El-Haija | 12m |
A tool called CodeInternational automatically translates identifiers and comments while preserving Java keywords by splitting identifiers with lightweight AI… | ||
| Understanding Learner Behavior Through Learning Design Informed Learning Analytics | Hao Shen, Leming Liang, Nancy Law, Erik Hember, Una-May O'Reilly | 15m |
A learning‑design‑aware analysis of an edX Python MOOC codes videos and exercises with a revised Bloom taxonomy, builds a learner resource access transition… | ||
| Toward Learning at Scale in Developing Countries | Andrew A McReynolds, Sheba P. Naderzad, Mononito Goswami, Jack Mostow | 14m |
A 15-month controlled study of 2,000+ children in 168 Tanzanian villages tests tablet tutoring under six broken assumptions (no reliable power, internet, or… | ||
| Co-Teaching Computer Science Across Borders: Human-Centric Learning at Scale | Chris Piech, Lisa Yan, Lisa Einstein, Ana Saavedra, Baris Bozkurt, Eliska Sestakova, Ondrej Guth, Nick McKeown | 16m |
CS Bridge presents an open-source course-in-a-box (Java and Python) that localizes lessons, slides, assignments and section leader guides so high schoolers go… | ||
| PARQR: Automatic Post Suggestion in the Piazza Online Forum to Support Online Students | India Irish Roy Finkelberg, Daniel Nkemelu, Swar Gujrania, Aadarsh Padiyath, Sumedha Raman, Chirag Tailor, Rosa I. Arriaga, Thad E. Starner | 11m |
PARQR augments Piazza with a real‑time recommender that parses a draft post, shows similar threads with metadata (follow-ups, age, week), and adds a TA… | ||
| Informal Learning Communities: The Other Massive Open Online 'C' | Will Hudgins, Michael Lynch, Ash Schmal, Harsh Sikka, Michael Swenson, David A. Joyner | 14m |
Study analyzes 62 communities with a tag-based typology (seven tag categories) and five deep case studies (Stack Overflow, WikiHow, FanFiction.net), uses the… | ||
| The Effect of Informing Agency in Self-Directed Online Learning Environments | Benjamin Xie, Greg L. Nelson, Harshitha Akkaraju, William Kwok, Amy J. Ko | 14m |
Built an online learning prototype called codits and run a one-week study with 79 novice programmers comparing three interfaces: informed high-agency, informed… | ||
| Effectiveness of Crowd-Sourcing On-Demand Assistance from Teachers in Online Learning | Thanaporn Patikorn, Neil T. Heffernan | 15m |
TeacherASSIST integrates into ASSISTments so teachers add hints and full explanations as they assign problems, and the system redistributes those resources to… | ||
| Studying Retrieval Practice in an Intelligent Tutoring System | Jeffrey Matayoshi, Hasan Uzun, Eric Cosyn | 15m |
Analysis of ALEKS (an adaptive ITS) uses a dataset of roughly 4 million students to extract ~850,000 assessment retrieval examples and ~300,000 learning… | ||
| Using Information Visualization to Promote Students' Reflection on "Gaming the System" | Meng Xia, Yuya Asano, Joseph Jay Williams, Huamin Qu, Xiaojuan Ma | 15m |
Identifies three common gaming contexts (busy, frustrated by hard problems, deeming concepts unimportant) and co-designs three context-specific persuasive… | ||
| Sensing Affect to Empower Students: Learner Perspectives on Affect-Sensitive Technology | Qiaosi Wang, Shan Jing, David A. Joyner, Lauren Wilcox, Hong Li, Thomas Plötz, Betsy James DiSalvo | 14m |
Two mixed-method studies probe student views: 11 in-class observations with affect-sensing wristbands plus interviews and a survey of online OMSCS students… | ||
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