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With the online learning platform used widely, learners’ behavior in online system should be an important element to assess the achievement and reflect the learning process. This paper proposes an approach to analyze the students’ behavior in Moodle’s online forum by a two-dimensional framework. One dimension is toward the interaction activities among peers’ posts in online forum. Another dimension is described by word clouds related to learning contents of the posts. The students’ learning behavior patterns are analyzed and described. It found that there is high correlation between the participating in online forum and achievement. The framework is helpful to design the architecture of automatically recommended system and adaptive learning system in the future.
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This study is supported by the Undergraduate Students Research Fund of East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST).
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Hu, Q., Huang, Y. (2018). A Framework for Analysis Learning Pattern Toward Online Forum in Programming Course. In: Deng, L., Ma, W., Fong, C. (eds) New Media for Educational Change. Educational Communications and Technology Yearbook. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8896-4_6
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