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Miaomiao Wen
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 37
Citations - 1439
Miaomiao Wen is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Speech synthesis & Mandarin Chinese. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 37 publications receiving 1286 citations. Previous affiliations of Miaomiao Wen include University of Tokyo.
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Sentiment Analysis in MOOC Discussion Forums: What does it tell us?
TL;DR: This paper explores mining collective sentiment from forum posts in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in order to monitor students’ trending opinions towards the course and major course tools, such as lecture and peer-assessment.
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Social factors that contribute to attrition in MOOCs
Carolyn Penstein Rosé,Ryan Carlson,Diyi Yang,Miaomiao Wen,Lauren B. Resnick,Pam Goldman,Jennifer Zoltners Sherer +6 more
TL;DR: A survival model is used to measure the impact of three social factors that make predictions about attrition along the way for students who have participated in the course discussion forum to explore student dropout behavior in a MOOC.
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Exploring the Effect of Confusion in Discussion Forums of Massive Open Online Courses
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the more confusion students express or are exposed to, the lower the probability of their retention in MOOCs and implications for design of interventions towards improving the retention of students in MOocs are demonstrated.
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Linguistic Reflections of Student Engagement in Massive Open Online Courses
TL;DR: Using computational linguistic models to measure learner motivation and cognitive engagement from the text of forum posts is investigated, and techniques using survival models that evaluate the predictive validity of these variables in connection with attrition over time are validated.
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Investigating How Student's Cognitive Behavior in MOOC Discussion Forums Affect Learning Gains.
TL;DR: A content analysis approach is adopted to analyze students’ cognitively relevant behaviors in a MOOC discussion forum and further explore the relationship between the quantity and quality of that participation with their learning gains.