An Analysis of Learners' Behavior in MOOC Discussion Area

Abstract

In recent years, the thriving of MOOC has provided a good network learning platform for learners. As an online learning platform for communication, the MOOC discussion area also plays an important role. This paper explores the number of learners 'speaking in the discussion area by using the web crawler technique, and studies the speech emotion and quality of the speech in the discussion area by using the text data of the learners' speaking of the 39 courses. The empirical results show that the online communication of the MOOC forum is convenient. The numbers of some individual members’ speaking made the average level improve. In addition, we also found that the proportion of posts with lower quality of speech was large and there was a significant gap between the average numbers of speaking of different courses.