Teaching recommender systems at large scale: evaluation and lessons learned from a hybrid MOOC
@article{Konstan2014TeachingRS, title={Teaching recommender systems at large scale: evaluation and lessons learned from a hybrid MOOC}, author={Joseph A. Konstan and J. D. Walker and D. Christopher Brooks and Keith Brown and Michael D. Ekstrand}, journal={Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Learning @ scale conference}, year={2014} }
In Fall 2013 we offered an open online Introduction to Recommender Systems through Coursera, while simultaneously offering a for-credit version of the course on-campus using the Coursera platform and a flipped classroom instruction model. As the goal of offering this course was to experiment with this type of instruction, we performed extensive evaluation including surveys of demographics, self-assessed skills, and learning intent; we also designed a knowledge-assessment tool specifically for…
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