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Proceedings of the 9 Symposium on Applied Science, Business & Industrial Research – 2017
ISSN 2279-1558, ISBN 978-955-7442-09-9

Hadoop Based Graph Analytics and Data Analytics Tools on Massive
Open Online Courses

Alagalla AWHP, Jayakody JRKC
Department of Computing &Information System, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
heshanalagalla@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is one of the famous online courses in the
current educational systems. Most of the universities are using MOOC’s all over the
world. Therefore, students follow MOOC courses to study subjects to enhance their
knowledge, skills in their chosen field. Even though there is a huge student’s base for
MOOC courses there are prevailing problems as well. They are less percentage of course
completion rate and difficulty to follow the course contents as scheduled by the
universities. Currently, it is very hard to find analytics tool to analyze students’ data
which is generated due to the usage of numerous MOOC’s activities such as assignment
submission, group activities and forum post etc. to identify the students’ failure rates.
Therefore, this research mainly focused on developing a tool to analyze MOOC data
effectively. MOOC data set of Harvard/MIT, which includes 600000 records and 36
attributes, were selected for this research. Graph analytics was implemented with the
Hadoop framework and hue was used for the graph visualization. Multi-dimensional
cubes were created to analyze the data. Numbers of graph patterns were realized to
identify the students based on region, subject and duration of the courses. Data mining
technique was used to develop a machine learning model to predict the pass rate
accuracy. Logistic regression model was given the highest accuracy with 96.08. The
research output of Graph analytics and data analytics patterns would be utilized in
future for effective functioning of MOOC systems.

KEYWORDS: Big data analysis, Machine learning, MOOC’s (Massive open online
courses)

sense, MOOCs are an incredibly valuable
1 INTRODUCTION
in addition to educational provision.
MOOC is an online course aimed at MOOCs can be useful in opening up access
unlimited participation and Open Access to high-quality content, particularly in
through the web. In addition to traditional developing countries, but successful
course materials such as lectures, lectures replication and substantial investment in
notes and problem sets, many MOOCs local support and partnerships will be
provide interactive user forums to support needed. MOOCs are valuable in
community interactions among students, developing basic conceptual learning, and
teachers, and teaching assistants. MOOCs in creating large online communities of
are a recent and widely researched interest or practice.
development in distance learning that was Further, MOOCs are an extremely
first introduced in 2008 and emerged as a valuable form of lifelong learning and
popular mode of learning. MOOCs, continuing education. Due to the plentiful
particularly xMOOCs, deliver high quality advantages which are mentioned above, the
content from some of the world’s best students’ base of MOOC is increasing day
universities for free to anyone with a by day which causes several challenges to
computer and an internet connection. This MOOC administrators of universities. Such
is an amazing value proposition. In this

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