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...

How Inverse Blended Learning can Turn Up Learning with MOOCs?

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been a hype in technology<br/>enhanced learning systems the last couple of years. The promises behind<br/>MOOCs stand on delivering free and open education to the public, as well as<br/>training a large criterion of students. However, MOOCs clashes severely with<br/>students dropout which by then forced...

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...

Orthography Training with IDeRBlog - an Open Educational Resources Practice

The article depicts the blogging platform IDeRBlog as an example of an Open Educational Resources Practice. The exercise databases of IDeRBlog are focussed in the context of orthography training. After briefly outlining Open Educational Resources an overview on how the exercises were researched and reviewed according to an established quality...

Transferring learning dashboards to new contexts: experiences from three case studies

This papers focuses on the use of learning dashboards in higher education to foster self-regulated learning and open education. Students in higher education have to evolve to independent and lifelong learners. Actionable feedback during learning that evokes critical self-reflection, helps to set learning goals, and strengthens self-regulation...

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on a MOOC in Aerospace Structures and Materials

In March 2020 COVID-19 brought the world and with that aviation to a standstill. Also in March 2020, the third run of the DelftX MOOC Introduction to Aerospace<br/>Structures and Materials started on edX. This MOOC generally attracts a mixture of young aviation enthusiasts (often students) and aviation professionals. Given the large interest...

Interactive Intelligence: Multimodal AI for Real-Time Interaction Loop towards Attentive E-Reading

E-learning has shifted the traditional learning paradigms in higher education, offering more flexible, ubiquitous, and personalized learning experiences. The previous years COVID-19 pandemic required a re-calibration of education to accommodate virtual learning environments from the traditional classroom-based education. Widespread learning...