Validity: a framework for cross-disciplinary collaboration in mining indicators of learning from MOOC forums.

Two research teams from the University of Melbourne's Learning Analytics Research Group used validation as applied in educational measurement to provide a framework for collaboration. One team was focussed on defining and building measures of learning capability of MOOCs participants, and the other on using topic modelling to discover topics in MOOC forums. The collaboration explored the suitability of items discovered from MOOC forums using topic modelling as measures of learning capability of participants in MOOCs.