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Who does what in a massive open online course?

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Student-participation data from the inaugural MITx (now edX) course---6.002x: Circuits and Electronics---unpacks MOOC student behavior.

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                  cover image Communications of the ACM
                  Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 4
                  April 2014
                  97 pages
                  ISSN:0001-0782
                  EISSN:1557-7317
                  DOI:10.1145/2580723
                  • Editor:
                  • Moshe Y. Vardi
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