BCC: Organizing Multi-Disciplinary Communities to Conduct Data-Intensive Research on Education and Learning

该项目的pi正在大规模开放在线课程的数据密集型环境中建立研究能力。ppi将世界教育门户网站（WEPS）的大规模开放在线课程（MOOC）作为一个组织范例，该课程专注于微积分，已在佛罗里达州立大学和赫尔辛基大学教授了8年多。pi正在建立一个研究人员社区，这些研究人员正在研究改善学生成绩衡量、教学方面和移动平台扩展的方法。该社区的一组特定研究重点包括mooc中基于设计的实验元素，可以在这种环境中研究的动机和情感方面，新的统计和分析方法的发展，围绕数据元素访问的道德问题，以及mooc的经济方面。多个研讨会将社区聚集在一起，Mendeley.com（一个学术社交网络）被用来在研讨会之间协调围绕mooc的不断增长的研究议程。该项目还包括一个邀请会议，为一套会议记录和报告组织与会者的论文。该项目建立在与芬兰高等教育机构虚拟合作的一系列项目的一部分的基础上。该项目提供了一种工具，将mooc的开发和初步研究转移到更广泛的社区。该项目将数学学习方面的专家与分析学和教育数据挖掘方面的专家结合起来，为MOOC虚拟学习环境中的学习提供深入的联系。对学习分析和教育数据挖掘研究议程的批评是，关于STEM内容的深度学习的焦点在研究和开发社区中没有得到很好的体现。重点往往放在基础设施的技术发展和分析大量数据所必需的统计过程上。研究议程中缺失的是关注学生如何在mooc中学习，以及学习环境的哪些方面支持这种学习。本研究将数学学习的研究联系到MOOC学习环境的充分性分析中。

The PIs of this project are building the capacity for research within the data-intensive environments of massive open online courses. The PIs are using as an organizing example the World Education Portals (WEPS) massive open online course (MOOC) that focuses on calculus and has been taught through Florida State University and the University of Helsinki for over 8 years. The PIs are building a community of researchers who are studying ways to improve student achievement measures, pedagogical aspects and the extensions to mobile platforms. A specific set of research foci for this community include the elements of design-based experimentation in MOOCs, motivational and affective aspects that can be studied within such environments, the development of new statistical and analytics methods, ethical issues that surround access to data elements, and economic aspects of MOOCs. Multiple workshops bring the community together, and Mendeley.com (an academic social network) is being used to coordinate the growing research agendas around MOOCs in the time between the workshops. The project also includes an invitational conference to organize participant papers for a set of proceedings and reports. This project builds on work that was funded as part of a suite of projects collaborating virtually with institutes of higher education in Finland. The project provides a vehicle to move the development and initial research on MOOCs to a wider community. The project leverages individuals who are experts in mathematics learning together with experts in analytics and educational data mining to provide a deep connection to learning in the MOOC virtual learning environments. A criticism of the learning analytics and educational data mining research agenda is that a focus of the deep learning about STEM content is not well represented in the research and development community. Too frequently, the focus is on the technical development of the infrastructure and the statistical processes that are necessary to analyze the large amounts of data. What has been missing from the research agenda is the focus on how students are learning in MOOCs and what aspects of the learning environments are supporting that learning. This study brings the connection of the study of the learning of mathematics into the analysis of the adequacy of the MOOC learning environment.