In the last five years, the world has seen a remarkable level of interest in Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs. Understanding students online learning behavior has attracted the attention of the universities participating in MOOCs. This thesis will introduce a narrative visualization system that delivers the analysis results of video clickstream data in a linear order, explicating analytical insights of the students online study behavior. This system contains two main parts, including a tutorial and slide show. The tutorial introduces the function of the three views and the way the designs are encoded, and the slide show presents the comprehensive analysis results of two MOOC courses. The three views are as follows: glyphs overview shows the distribution and statistical info...[ Read more ]

In the last five years, the world has seen a remarkable level of interest in Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs. Understanding students online learning behavior has attracted the attention of the universities participating in MOOCs. This thesis will introduce a narrative visualization system that delivers the analysis results of video clickstream data in a linear order, explicating analytical insights of the students online study behavior. This system contains two main parts, including a tutorial and slide show. The tutorial introduces the function of the three views and the way the designs are encoded, and the slide show presents the comprehensive analysis results of two MOOC courses. The three views are as follows: glyphs overview shows the distribution and statistical information of the valuable peaks regarding one type of clickstream data-seek event in the whole course; flow view shows the spatio-temporal information for peaks; and the correlation view represents the interrelationship among different learning groups. To exploit the possibility of technology transfer, two applications are proposed and the business opportunities are verified, respectively. A potentially feasible business plan is described as well.