Using DACP (Data Analyzer of Coursera Platform) to Analyze MOOC Platform Data

This paper introduces DACP (Data Analyzer of Courser a Platform), a simple tool kit based on SQL commands and open source machines learning software WEKA to analyze the MOOC Courser a platform data including click stream, user information, lecture view, page view, video view, course assignment submission and grading, quiz submission and grading, course grades and so on. It includes five modules to implement the data transformation, modification, updating and analysis. As a test bed, the authors used this toolkit to analyze the data of one MOOC from Peking University in details. The descriptive and correlative analysis result shows that the learners' participation in all course activities is the determinant factor to their learning achievement in a MOOC.