An overview of studies about students' performance analysis and learning analytics in MOOCs

In this paper, we aimed to guide about latest development and studies about students' performance analysis and Learning Analytics in Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for researchers related with the topics. For this purpose short review for usage of performance prediction and Learning Analytics in MOOCs is investigated In our study, to help readers get familiar with our topic, firstly literature information about basic concepts are explained. Then to understand features' importance level and their relationships more detailed, information about some papers were provided. After that, findings about usage of student performance prediction and Learning Analytics in MOOCs are summarized.

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