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DESCRIPTION:Professor Ryan Baker of the University of Pennsylvania will spe
 ak at this colloquium in the auditorium of the National Center for Superco
 mputing Applications on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign cam
 pus. The College of Education is co-sponsoring the talk.\nA 10:15 receptio
 n will take place prior to Baker's talk.\nAbstract:&nbsp\;Massive Online O
 pen Courses (MOOCs) have been viewed as a potentially powerful source for 
 research on learning and student success\, but research on MOOCs has large
 ly been fragmentary\, with most research conducted on single MOOCs\, and l
 imited work towards formally studying which findings replicate across cour
 ses. In this paper\, we present an architecture to facilitate replication 
 of research on learning and behavior within MOOCs. This architecture can i
 ngest data from an edX Massive Open Online Course and test whether a range
  of findings apply\, in their original form or slightly modified using an 
 automated search process. We identify 15 findings from previously publishe
 d studies on completion in MOOCs\, render them into production rules withi
 n our architecture\, and test them across 29 MOOC instances\, using a post
 -hoc method to control for multiple comparisons. I will discuss which find
 ings replicate and which findings replicate in reverse. We are currently w
 orking to extend this replication to over 60 MOOCs. This work represents a
  step towards automated replication of correlational research findings at 
 large scale.\nSponsor: National Center for Supercomputing Applications and
  the College of Education
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LOCATION:IL\,USA\,Champaign\,NCSA Auditorium
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SUMMARY:NCSA Colloquium: Toward Massive Replication of Scientific Findings 
 in Massive Online Open Courses
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Professor Ryan Baker of the University of P
 ennsylvania will speak at this colloquium in the auditorium of the Nationa
 l Center for Supercomputing Applications on the University of Illinois at 
 Urbana-Champaign campus. The College of Education is co-sponsoring the tal
 k.</p>\n<p>A 10:15 reception will take place prior to Baker's talk.</p>\n<
 p><strong>Abstract:&nbsp\;</strong>Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) hav
 e been viewed as a potentially powerful source for research on learning an
 d student success\, but research on MOOCs has largely been fragmentary\, w
 ith most research conducted on single MOOCs\, and limited work towards for
 mally studying which findings replicate across courses. In this paper\, we
  present an architecture to facilitate replication of research on learning
  and behavior within MOOCs. This architecture can ingest data from an edX 
 Massive Open Online Course and test whether a range of findings apply\, in
  their original form or slightly modified using an automated search proces
 s. We identify 15 findings from previously published studies on completion
  in MOOCs\, render them into production rules within our architecture\, an
 d test them across 29 MOOC instances\, using a post-hoc method to control 
 for multiple comparisons. I will discuss which findings replicate and whic
 h findings replicate in reverse. We are currently working to extend this r
 eplication to over 60 MOOCs. This work represents a step towards automated
  replication of correlational research findings at large scale.</p>\n<p cl
 ass="sponsor"><span class="event-heading sponsor">Sponsor:</span> National
  Center for Supercomputing Applications and the College of Education</p>
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