2022
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-022-11373-1
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Identifying learners’ topical interests from social media content to enrich their course preferences in MOOCs using topic modeling and NLP techniques

Abstract: Interests play an essential role in the process of learning, thereby enriching learners ‘interests will yield to an enhanced experience in MOOCs. Learners interact freely and spontaneously on social media through different forms of user-generated content which contain hidden information that reveals their real interests and preferences. In this paper, we aim to identify and extract the topical interest from the text content shared by learners on social media to enrich their course preferences in MOOCs. We appl… Show more

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“…As far as the authors are concerned, there are no previous studies using BERTopic to model topics in medical literature, the most common uses for BERTopic have been limited to analyzing different topics across social media and other media platforms. [12][13][14] BERTopic and traditional methods (LDA for example) are two different approaches to topic modeling. While LDA has been the traditional method of topic modeling for many years, BERT is a more recent approach and one of the goals of our study was to assess how effective it is in the context of medical literature.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As far as the authors are concerned, there are no previous studies using BERTopic to model topics in medical literature, the most common uses for BERTopic have been limited to analyzing different topics across social media and other media platforms. [12][13][14] BERTopic and traditional methods (LDA for example) are two different approaches to topic modeling. While LDA has been the traditional method of topic modeling for many years, BERT is a more recent approach and one of the goals of our study was to assess how effective it is in the context of medical literature.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It consists of three steps: UMAP dimensionality reduction, HDBSCAN clustering, and c-TF-IDF extraction of subject terms. Therefore, it is able to take into account the semantic information of the text more fully than the LDA model [21].…”
Section: Bertopic Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The interconnectedness of media content preferences and the value orientation of the prospective teachers plays an important role in the quality of teaching. (Zankadi et al, 2022) stated that learners interact freely and voluntarily with various forms of user-generated content that conceals their true interests and preferences. Hence, understanding the media content preferences and the value orientation of the prospective teachers can help college instructors in improving their strategies to make it engaging that it catches their interests.…”
Section: Relationship Between Media Content Preferences and Perceptio...mentioning
confidence: 99%