Automatic Identification of Questions in MOOC Forums and Association with Self-Regulated Learning

International audienceDiscussion forums can be a rich source to analyze students' questions but it can be challenging to find relevant categories of questions. We considered here students' posts from the discussion forum of four editions of a same French MOOC on Project Management. We extended a coding scheme to annotate questions based on their content (course vs. non course) and trained 3 stages of an automatic annotation model. Then we studied the correlation between the nature of the questions asked and students' performance and self-regulation. The results are promising and reveal, for the minority of students active on forums, the possibility to use this feature to better estimate their performance and some of their self-regulation skills based on questions they ask