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Virtual Teams in Massive Open Online Courses

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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015)

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Previous work on MOOCs highlights both that the current MOOCs fail to provide the kind of social environment that is desired and that social interaction and exchange of support is important for slowing down attrition over time. However, little is known about how to support virtual teams in a MOOC context. In this paper, we demonstrate what factors distinguish successful and nonsuccessful virtual teams in NovoEd MOOCs, where team collaboration is an integral part of the course design. In particular, we find team leaders play a central role in determining team performance. We discuss implications for continued work towards intelligent support for team leaders in MOOCs.

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  1. Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Miaomiao Wen, Diyi Yang & Carolyn Penstein Rosé

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  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Cristina Conati

  2. Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

    Neil Heffernan

  3. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

  4. E.T.S.I. Informática, Universidad National de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

    M. Felisa Verdejo

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Wen, M., Yang, D., Rosé, C.P. (2015). Virtual Teams in Massive Open Online Courses. In: Conati, C., Heffernan, N., Mitrovic, A., Verdejo, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_124

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