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The identification and analysis of student satisfaction is a challenging issue. This is becoming increasingly important since a measure of student satisfaction is taken as an indication of how well a course has been taught. However, it…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Farzana Afrin , Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman , Margaret Hamilton

Student simulation presents a transformative approach to enhance learning outcomes, advance educational research, and ultimately shape the future of effective pedagogy. We explore the feasibility of using large language models (LLMs), a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Songlin Xu , Xinyu Zhang

This study examines whether including more contextual information in data analysis could improve our ability to identify the relation between students' online learning behavior and overall performance in an introductory physics course. We…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-07-01 Zhongzhou Chen , Mengyu Xu , Geoffrey Garrido , Matthew W. Guthrie

Predicting students' academic performance has been a research area of interest in recent years with many institutions focusing on improving the students' performance and the education quality. The analysis and prediction of students'…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-11 MohammadNoor Injadat , Abdallah Moubayed , Ali Bou Nassif , Abdallah Shami

A freely available educational application (a mobile website) is presented. This provides access to educational material and drilling on selected topics within mathematics and statistics with an emphasis on tablets and mobile phones. The…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2014-12-10 Jamie Lentin , Anna H. Jonsdottir , David Stern , Victoria Mokua , Gunnar Stefansson

Big data repositories from online learning platforms such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent an unprecedented opportunity to advance research on education at scale and impact a global population of learners. To date, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Josh Gardner , Christopher Brooks , Juan Miguel L. Andres , Ryan Baker

We investigate the potential of using ordinal peer grading for the evaluation of students in massive online open courses (MOOCs). According to such grading schemes, each student receives a few assignments (by other students) which she has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ioannis Caragiannis , George A. Krimpas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Supporting student success requires collaboration among multiple stakeholders. Researchers have explored machine learning models for academic performance prediction; yet key challenges remain in ensuring these models are interpretable,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Han Zhang , Yiyi Ren , Paula S. Nurius , Jennifer Mankoff , Anind K. Dey

This paper explores advancements in Artificial Intelligence technologies to enhance classroom learning, highlighting contributions from companies like IBM, Microsoft, Google, and ChatGPT, as well as the potential of brain signal analysis.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shadeeb Hossain

Mobile applications and other integration of information and communication technology (ICT) have become well-known in education to monitor teaching and learning activities. The analysis of student learning through evaluation is a growing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ronel B. Dayanghirang , Alexander A. Hernandez

Quantitative understanding of relationships between students' behavioral patterns and academic performances is a significant step towards personalized education. In contrast to previous studies that mainly based on questionnaire surveys, in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-23 Yi Cao , Jian Gao , Defu Lian , Zhihai Rong , Jiatu Shi , Qing Wang , Yifan Wu , Huaxiu Yao , Tao Zhou

Online learning and MOOCs have become increasingly popular in recent years, and the trend will continue, given the technology boom. There is a dire need to observe learners' behavior in these online courses, similar to what instructors do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Aditya Panwar , Ashwin T S , Ramkumar Rajendran , Kavi Arya

Students have a limited time to study and are typically ineffective at allocating study time. Machine-directed study strategies that identify which items need reinforcement and dictate the spacing of repetition have been shown to help…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Shane Mooney , Karen Sun , Eric Bomgardner

The Web has enabled one of the most visible recent developments in education---the deployment of massive open online courses. With their global reach and often staggering enrollments, MOOCs have the potential to become a major new mechanism…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Ashton Anderson , Daniel Huttenlocher , Jon Kleinberg , Jure Leskovec

Millions of people have enrolled and enrol (especially in the Covid-19 pandemic world) in MOOCs. However, the retention rate of learners is notoriously low. The majority of the research work on this issue focuses on predicting the dropout…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Ahmed Alamri , Zhongtian Sun , Alexandra I. Cristea , Gautham Senthilnathan , Lei Shi , Craig Stewart

The main objective of higher education institutions is to provide quality education to its students. One way to achieve highest level of quality in higher education system is by discovering knowledge for prediction regarding enrolment of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Brijesh Kumar Baradwaj , Saurabh Pal

With an expansive and ubiquitously available gold mine of educational data, Massive Open Online courses (MOOCs) have become the an important foci of learning analytics research. In this paper, we investigate potential reasons as to why are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Tanmay Sinha

Grade prediction for future courses not yet taken by students is important as it can help them and their advisers during the process of course selection as well as for designing personalized degree plans and modifying them based on their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Sara Morsy , George Karypis

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in natural language processing and are increasingly being integrated into recommendation systems. However, their potential in educational recommendation systems has yet to be fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Boxuan Ma , Md Akib Zabed Khan , Tianyuan Yang , Agoritsa Polyzou , Shin'ichi Konomi

This paper presents a novel approach to understand specific student behavior in MOOCs. Instructors currently perceive participants only as one homogeneous group. In order to improve learning outcomes, they encourage students to get active…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ralf Teusner , Kai-Adrian Rollmann , Jan Renz