Improving Student Efficiency, Instructor Engagement, and Program Integrity in Online Degree-Seeking Programs
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Irish, India
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The rapid growth in interest in online classrooms has required institutions to consider developing tools to help facilitate large-scale student enrollment. However, many interventions are targeted at massive online open courses rather than online degree-seeking courses, which have different needs.
My research uses a mixed-methods approach to present students and teaching assistants’ perceptions of, and interactions with, recommendation systems in classroom discussion forums. To lay the groundwork for designing recommendation systems to incorporate educational frameworks, I explore the correlation between cognitive presence and urgent posts. Leveraging this information helps instructors to identify which posts in online discussion forums require their immediate attention. In addition, I focus on the impact of “homework-for-hire” contractors in maintaining academic integrity in the educational environment and identify how systems can be created to reduce students’ ability to participate in academic misconduct on third-party websites. This dissertation shows that intelligent system design in online degree-seeking programs promotes engagement and integrity among stakeholders.
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2023-12-13
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