Data-driven analytics for student reviews in China's higher vocational education MOOCs: A quality improvement perspective

PLoS One. 2024 Mar 13;19(3):e0298675. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298675. eCollection 2024.

Abstract

Higher vocational education is the core component of China's national education system and shoulders the mission of cultivating high-skilled and applied talents. The wide application of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has effectively improved the curriculum system of China's higher vocational education. In the meantime, some MOOCs suffer from poor course quality. Therefore, from the perspective of sustainable course quality improvement, we propose a data-driven framework for mining and analyzing student reviews in China's higher vocational education MOOCs. In our framework, we first mine multi-level student demands hidden in MOOC reviews by combining web crawlers and text mining. Then we use an artificial neural network and the KANO model to classify the extracted student demands, thereby designing effective and sustainable MOOC quality improvement strategies. Based on the real data from China's higher vocational education MOOCs, we validate the effectiveness of the proposed data-driven framework.

MeSH terms

  • China
  • Education, Distance*
  • Humans
  • Nigeria
  • Quality Improvement
  • Students
  • Vocational Education*

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the Soft Science Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan (Grant Number 23692113000).