A method for analysis of online discussion forum in moodle

Qingchun Hu, Yong Huang, Liping DENG

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Abstract

The learners' interaction and contents in online discussion forum could also be as important elements to evaluate the learning. The paper proposes a framework of concept map derived from forum (CMF) to analyze online discussion forum in Moodle. The framework analyzes the interaction among peers and posts, which facilitates effective knowledge organization by constructing relationships between forum contents and existing knowledge. The framework extracts the learning difficulties and visualized with word clouds in online forum. The research contributes to bridging the gap between teaching materials and students' questions from online forum. The CMF framework is helpful to design the architecture of automatically answer system and real-time feedback within adaptive learning in the future.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication13th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2018
PublisherIEEE
Pages548-551
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538654958
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Sept 2018
Event13th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2018 - Colombo, Sri Lanka
Duration: 8 Aug 201811 Aug 2018

Publication series

Name13th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2018

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2018
Country/TerritorySri Lanka
CityColombo
Period8/08/1811/08/18

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Education

User-Defined Keywords

  • Learning analytics
  • Online forum
  • Online learning

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