2016-06-012016-02-26ULLMANN, M. R. D. Formação de grupos em MOOCs utilizando Particle Swarm Optimization. 2016. 99 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciência da Computação) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2016.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5609The MassiveOpenOnlineCourses(MOOCs)areonlinecourseswithopenenrollment that involvingahugeamountofstudentsfromdifferentlocations,withdifferentback- grounds andinterests.Thelargenumberofstudentsimpliesahugeandunmanageable number ofinteractions.Thisfact,alongwiththedifferentinterestsofstudents,resulting in low-qualityinteractions.Duetothelargenumberofstudents,alsobecomesunviable composition manuallylearninggroups.DuetothesecharacteristicspresentinMOOCs, a methodforforminggroupswasdevelopedinthiswork,asanattempttoattendthedi- chotomy existsbetweenthecollective,whichinvolvestheformationofanonlinelearning community onamassivescale,andindividual,withdifferentinterests,priorknowledge and expectationsanddifferentleadershipprofiles.Fortheformationofgroups,anadapta- tion ofParticleSwarmOptimizationalgorithmwasproposedbasedonthreecriteria,kno- wledge level,interestsandleadershipprofiles,formingthengroupswithdifferentlevels of knowledge,similarinterestsanddistributedleadership,providingbetterinteractionand knowledgeconstruction.Werecreatedtwovariationsoftheproblem,withfivestudents and theothersix.Basedoncomputationaltests,thealgorithmdemonstratedthatableto attend thegroupingcriteriainasatisfactorycomputingtimeandismoreefficientthanthe model randomgroupsformation.Thetestsalsodemonstratedthatthealgorithmisrobust taking intoaccountthevariousdatasetsanditerationsvariations.Toevaluatethequality of interactionsandknowledgebuildingingroupsformedbythemethod,Acasestudy wasconducted;andfortheanalysisofthecollecteddiscourses,itwastakenasthebasis twomodelsofdiscourseanalysisfoundintheliterature.Theresultsofthecasestudy demonstrated thatthegroupsformedbytheproposedmethodachievedthebestresultsin the interactionsandknowledgeconstruction,whencomparedwithgroupsthatdonotuse it.application/pdfAcesso AbertoMOOCCursos onlineMassivos abertosCSCLAprendizagem colaborativaAprendizagem a distânciaPSOOtimização porenxamedepartículasAnálise combinatóriaComposição de gruposFormaçãode gruposMOOCMassive open online coursesCSCLColaborative learningDistance learningPSOParticle swarm optimizationCombinatorial analysisGroup compositionGroup formationCIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAODissertação