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A Toolbox for Modelling Engagement with Educational Videos

Computers and Society 2024-01-12 v1 Information Retrieval Machine Learning Applications

Abstract

With the advancement and utility of Artificial Intelligence (AI), personalising education to a global population could be a cornerstone of new educational systems in the future. This work presents the PEEKC dataset and the TrueLearn Python library, which contains a dataset and a series of online learner state models that are essential to facilitate research on learner engagement modelling.TrueLearn family of models was designed following the "open learner" concept, using humanly-intuitive user representations. This family of scalable, online models also help end-users visualise the learner models, which may in the future facilitate user interaction with their models/recommenders. The extensive documentation and coding examples make the library highly accessible to both machine learning developers and educational data mining and learning analytics practitioners. The experiments show the utility of both the dataset and the library with predictive performance significantly exceeding comparative baseline models. The dataset contains a large amount of AI-related educational videos, which are of interest for building and validating AI-specific educational recommenders.

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@article{arxiv.2401.05424,
  title  = {A Toolbox for Modelling Engagement with Educational Videos},
  author = {Yuxiang Qiu and Karim Djemili and Denis Elezi and Aaneel Shalman and María Pérez-Ortiz and Emine Yilmaz and John Shawe-Taylor and Sahan Bulathwela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.05424},
  year   = {2024}
}

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In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2309.11527

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