MOOCs' Recommendation Based on Forum Latent Dirichlet Allocation
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Abstract
Open to all, easy enrollment process and free admission make the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) attract a large number of learners, but few of them finish their courses and eventually obtain their certification. Several proposals are discussed, but as long as the economic model of MOOCs isn't well defined yet, certain institutions and companies keep attracting more learners to enroll and stay in their MOOCs without considering their prerequisites and needs. The aim of our contribution is to recommend enrollment in the MOOCs primarily to learners who have expressed a need or a gap and having prerequisites (i.e. in discussion forums); using LDA Topic Modeling on their shared texts we group the learners according to similar needs and interests, in order to propose for them a useful MOOC.
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