Teaching recommender systems at large scale: Evaluation and lessons learned from a hybrid MOOC

Joseph A. Konstan; J. D. Walker; D. Christopher Brooks; Keith Brown; Michael D. Ekstrand

doi:10.1145/2556325.2566244

Teaching recommender systems at large scale: Evaluation and lessons learned from a hybrid MOOC

Joseph A. Konstan, J. D. Walker, D. Christopher Brooks, Keith Brown, Michael D. Ekstrand

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Abstract

In Fall 2013 we offered an open online Introduction to Recommender Systems through Coursera, while simultaneously offering a for-credit version of the course on-campus using the Coursera platform and a flipped classroom instruction model. As the goal of offering this course was to experiment with this type of instruction, we performed extensive evaluation including surveys of demographics, self-assessed skills, and learning intent; we also designed a knowledge-assessment tool specifically for the subject matter in this course, administering it before and after the course to measure learning. We also tracked students through the course, including separating out students enrolled for credit from those enrolled only for the free, open course. This article reports on our findings.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	L@S 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	61-70
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2556325.2566244
State	Published - Jan 1 2014
Event	1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L@S 2014 - Atlanta, GA, United States Duration: Mar 4 2014 → Mar 5 2014

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Other	1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L@S 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta, GA
Period	3/4/14 → 3/5/14

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Evaluation
MOOC
Open learning

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Teaching recommender systems at large scale: Evaluation and lessons learned from a hybrid MOOC. / Konstan, Joseph A.; Walker, J. D.; Brooks, D. Christopher et al.
L@S 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 61-70.

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Konstan, JA , Walker, JD, Brooks, DC, Brown, K & Ekstrand, MD 2014, Teaching recommender systems at large scale: Evaluation and lessons learned from a hybrid MOOC. in L@S 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 61-70, 1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L@S 2014, Atlanta, GA, United States, 3/4/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556325.2566244

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