xBlock

Part of the Discussion Affordances for Natural Collaborative Exchange (DANCE), XBlock is a discussion forum for improving scripted support for collaboration in massive open online courses (MOOCs). It provides all basic features expected of a forum while augmenting the experience with social recommendation, plus light social awareness and semi-synchronous interaction through a personal messaging capability. It also provides the forum data in a source agnostic data infrastructure model using DiscourseDB that will allow the contextualization and comparison of discourse data from across platforms.

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