Extracting prerequisite relations among concepts from the introduction of online courses

ABSTRACT

Affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching tasks have gradually shifted from offline to online, which expanded online education resources unprecedentedly. “Concept” is a professional vocabulary in the curriculum. Exploring the prerequisite relations among concepts is of great significance to educational planning. This research extracts concepts from online course introduction and proposes a mixed method for extracting concept prerequisite relations. Experiments on public data set show that this method outperforms existing ones. Tests were also carried out on the datasets of eleven schools, which proves that this model has good scalability. © 2021 Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School. All rights reserved.