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SRLx: A Personalized Learner Interface for MOOCs

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Past research in large-scale learning environments has found one of the most inhibiting factors to learners’ success to be their inability to effectively self-regulate their learning efforts. In traditional small-scale learning environments, personalized feedback (on progress, content, behavior, etc.) has been found to be an effective solution to this issue, but it has not yet widely been evaluated at scale. In this paper we present the Personalized SRL Support System (SRLx), an interactive widget that we designed and open-sourced to improve learners’ self-regulated learning behavior in the Massive Open Online Course platform edX. SRLx enables learners to plan their learning on a weekly basis and view real-time feedback on the realization of those plans. We deployed SRLx in a renewable energies MOOC to more than 2,900 active learners and performed an exploratory analysis on our learners’ SRL behavior.

D. Davis—The author’s research is supported by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Education and Learning.

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    Open-sourced at https://github.com/dan7davis/Lambda.

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    https://github.com/edx/event-tracking.

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  1. Web Information Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Dan Davis, Claudia Hauff & Geert-Jan Houben

  2. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

    Vasileios Triglianos

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Davis, D., Triglianos, V., Hauff, C., Houben, GJ. (2018). SRLx: A Personalized Learner Interface for MOOCs. In: Pammer-Schindler, V., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Drachsler, H., Elferink, R., Scheffel, M. (eds) Lifelong Technology-Enhanced Learning. EC-TEL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11082. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98572-5_10

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