Course recommendation of MOOC with big data support: A contextual online learning approach

With the advent of the big data era of MOOC, enrolled students and offered courses become numerous and diverse, resulting in a large amount of data and complex curriculum relationships. Thus how to recommend appropriate course to improve students' learning outcomes has become a daunting task. The state-of-the-art works ignore some significant features in course recommendation of MOOC: heterogeneity of large-scale user groups, sequence problem in...