@inproceedings{1a2fd962aff740aeaccb7732270ae513,
title = "Identifying learning-inductive content in programming discussion forums",
abstract = "Online programming discussion forums are popular trouble-shooting and problem-solving sites for programmers and learners to reach out for help. The massive volumes of forum threads harbor tremendous amounts of information, but at the same time increase the complexity of search and navigation. In this work, we make use of programming discussions' syntactic, semantic and social features to model content associated with learning activities based on the ICAP learning framework. Our main goal is to detect useful content for learning programming in a large scale of questions and answers, while at the same time experiment with an artificial intelligence approach to detect learning-inductive content. We build regression models based on the defined constructive learning activities. Results reveal a passive-proactive learning behavior in an online programming discussion forum. The findings also reconfirm the value of programming discussion content, disregarding the crowds' approval. The automatic detection of constructive learning activities from programming discussions can be a helpful classifier in identifying relevant educational resources. Overall, this project contributes to our understanding on analyzing and utilizing mass programming discussion content for online programming language learning.",
keywords = "constructive learning, discourse analysis, discussion forum, engagement activity, learning activity, learning assessment, programming, programming language learning, semantic modelling",
author = "Ihan Hsiao and Fatima Naveed",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2015 ; Conference date: 21-10-2015 Through 24-10-2015",
year = "2015",
month = dec,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1109/FIE.2015.7344105",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference",
}