Towards Automated Study Guides for MOOCs: A Tech Report From the Stanford Info Lab
The following tech report was written by researchers at the Stanford Info Lab.
Title
Towards Automated Study Guides for MOOCs
Authors
Jose Hernandez
Stanford University
Andrew Lamb
Stanford University
Andreas Paepcke
Stanford University
Jeffrey Ullman
Stanford University
Source
Stanford Info Lab (2015)
Note
The submission to a research workshop in the context of Coursera’s 2015 Partners Conference
Abstract
Early experiments towards automating the production of study guides in MOOCs are sketched. The creation of relevant index keywords from video closed caption files is outlined, as well as the automated detection of coherent topic clusters from those keywords.
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