QWiki: a collaborative space to mine feedback for MOOCs

Abstract

In a classroom environment, “understood?” is the most common feedback question asked by a teacher for the evaluation of his/her teaching. But, in a virtual environment like MOOCs, no such feedback mechanism can be materialized. In this paper, we propose that a combination of wiki and QnA forum (called QWiki) can be used to mine feedback for the video lectures. The results of the experiment show that the deployment of a collaborative space like QWiki in MOOCs helps to judge the degree of comprehension of the concepts in the video lectures by the students.