Evaluating Crowdworkers as a Proxy for Online Learners in Video-Based Learning Contexts

Crowdsourcing has emerged as an effective method of scaling-up tasks previously reserved for a small set of experts. Accordingly, researchers in the large-scale online learning space have begun to employ crowdworkers to conduct research about large-scale, open online learning. We here report results from a crowdsourcing study (N=135) to evaluate...

Buying time: Enabling learners to become earners with a real-world paid task recommender system

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) aim to educate the world, especially learners from developing countries. While MOOCs are certainly available to the masses, they are not yet fully accessible. Although all course content is just clicks<br/>away, deeply engaging with a MOOC requires a substantial time commitment, which frequently becomes a...