Microphysiological Systems for Comorbidity Studies: Chronic Kidney Disease and Osteoarthritis. [PDF]
This review highlights the potential of organ‐on‐a‐chip systems for studying comorbidities, using chronic kidney disease (CKD) and osteoarthritis (OA) as examples. It summarizes recent advances in kidney‐on‐a‐chip and joint‐on‐a‐chip models and discusses their current and potential application in investigating CKD, OA, and CKD‐OA comorbidity, aiming to
Han M +7 more
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Supporting Self-Regulated Learning in Online Learning Environments and MOOCs: A Systematic Review
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow learning to take place anytime and anywhere with little external monitoring by teachers. Characteristically, highly diverse groups of learners enrolled in MOOCs are required to make decisions related to their own
Jacqueline Wong +5 more
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Fostering self-directed learning in MOOCs: Motivation, learning strategies, and instruction
Given the increasing number of learners in massive open online courses (MOOCs), students’ self-directed learning (SDL) skills are necessary for their success.
Meina Zhu, Curtis J. Bonk, Sarah Berri
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Effectiveness of Integrating MOOCs in Traditional Classrooms for Undergraduate Students
The idea of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has attracted a lot of media attention in the last couple of years. MOOCs have been used mostly as stand-alone online courses without credits. However, some researchers, teachers, colleges, and universities
Maria Joseph Israel
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MOOCs for language learning – opportunities and challenges: the case of the Open University Italian Beginners’ MOOCs [PDF]
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a fairly recent development in online education. Language MOOCs (LMOOCs) have recently been added to the ever-growing list of open courses offered by various providers, including FutureLearn.
Motzo, Anna, Proudfoot, Anna
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MOOC. To be offered on the Coursera or edX platform for free. Expected duration 6-8 week (study load around 40hrs), to be specified. The course will remain available as an archived course after the completion of the project. M30 is the due date for the preliminary version, M36 is the due date for the final version.
Nocchi, Susanna, McLoughlin, Laura
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We explore interpretations of MOOCs around the globe and, in particular, interpretations of MOOCs in Norway. Based on a review of previous studies relevant to these topics, we present two contrasting views on the emergence and development of MOOCs ...
Cathrine Edelhard Tømte +2 more
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An investigation into the perspectives of providers and learners on MOOC accessibility [PDF]
An effective open eLearning environment should consider the target learner’s abilities, learning goals, where learning takes place, and which specific device(s) the learner uses.
Al-Mouh N. A. +23 more
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Weakly Supervised Framework for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis on Students’ Reviews of MOOCs
Students’ feedback is an effective mechanism that provides valuable insights about teaching-learning process. Handling opinions of students expressed in reviews is a quite labour-intensive and tedious task as it is typically performed manually by the ...
Zenun Kastrati +2 more
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MOOCCube: A Large-scale Data Repository for NLP Applications in MOOCs
The prosperity of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provides fodder for many NLP and AI research for education applications, e.g., course concept extraction, prerequisite relation discovery, etc.
Jifan Yu +11 more
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