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The explosion of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in the recent years creates the demand for scalable, automatic approaches to process and evaluate OERs, with the end goal of identifying and recommending the most suitable educational…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Sahan Bulathwela , María Pérez-Ortiz , Aldo Lipani , Emine Yilmaz , John Shawe-Taylor

The ability to accurately predict and analyze student performance in online education, both at the outset and throughout the semester, is vital. Most of the published studies focus on binary classification (Fail or Pass) but there is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Naveed Ur Rehman Junejo , Muhammad Wasim Nawaz , Qingsheng Huang , Xiaoqing Dong , Chang Wang , Gengzhong Zheng

We tackle the prediction of instructor intervention in student posts from discussion forums in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Our key finding is that using automatically obtained discourse relations improves the prediction of when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran , Carrie Demmans Epp , Min-Yen Kan , Diane Litman

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer unprecedented opportunities to learn at scale. Within a few years, the phenomenon of crowd-based learning has gained enormous popularity with millions of learners across the globe participating in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Rebecca Eynon , Isis Hjorth , Taha Yasseri , Nabeel Gillani

In this paper we consider the problem of modelling when students end their session in an online mathematics educational system. Being able to model this accurately will help us optimize the way content is presented and consumed. This is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Christian Hansen , Casper Hansen , Stephen Alstrup , Christina Lioma

Learner satisfaction is a critical quality signal in massive open online courses (MOOCs), directly influencing retention, engagement, and platform reputation. Most existing methods infer satisfaction \emph{post hoc} from end-of-course…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Anna Kowalczyk , Jakub Kowalski

The intrinsic temporality of learning demands the adoption of methodologies capable of exploiting time-series information. In this study we leverage the sequence data framework and show how data-driven analysis of temporal sequences of task…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Robert L. Peach , Sam F. Greenbury , Iain G. Johnston , Sophia N. Yaliraki , David Lefevre , Mauricio Barahona

The time it takes a student to graduate with a university degree is mitigated by a variety of factors such as their background, the academic performance at university, and their integration into the social communities of the university they…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-01-27 John M. Aiken , Riccardo De Bin , Morten Hjorth-Jensen , Marcos D. Caballero

Dropout is a widely-used regularization technique, often required to obtain state-of-the-art for a number of architectures. This work demonstrates that dropout introduces two distinct but entangled regularization effects: an explicit effect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Colin Wei , Sham Kakade , Tengyu Ma

Despite artificial intelligence (AI) having transformed major aspects of our society, less than a fraction of its potential has been explored, let alone deployed, for education. AI-powered learning can provide millions of learners with a…

Dropout in higher education is commonly analysed through observable academic events such as course failure or repetition. However, these event-based perspectives may obscure the underlying structural dynamics that shape student…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hugo Roger Paz

While there is evidence that user-adaptive support can greatly enhance the effectiveness of educational systems, designing such support for exploratory learning environments (e.g., simulations) is still challenging due to the open-ended…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sébastien Lallé , Cristina Conati

Adaptive learning aims to stimulate and meet the needs of individual learners, which requires sophisticated system-level coordination of diverse tasks, including modeling learning resources, estimating student states, and making…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Qingyang Zhong , Jifan Yu , Zheyuan Zhang , Yiming Mao , Yuquan Wang , Yankai Lin , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang

This study aims to determine a predictive model to learn students probability to pass their courses taken at the earliest stage of the semester. To successfully discover a good predictive model with high acceptability, accurate, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Anabella C. Doctor

Many studies in educational data mining address specific learner groups, such as first-in-family to attend Higher Education, or focus on differences in characteristics such as gender or ethnicity, with the aim of predicting performance and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Robert D. Macredie , Martin Shepperd , Tommaso Turchi , Terry Young

This paper analyzes the dynamics of higher education dropouts through an innovative approach that integrates recurrent events modeling and point process theory with functional data analysis. We propose a novel methodology that extends…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-02 Alessandra Ragni , Chiara Masci , Anna Maria Paganoni

Student learning activity in MOOCs can be viewed from multiple perspectives. We present a new organization of MOOC learner activity data at a resolution that is in between the fine granularity of the clickstream and coarse organizations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Yanbang Wang , Nancy Law , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

Sustained effort is essential for realizing the benefits of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), yet many learners disengage or underuse available practice time. We introduce engagement forecasting as a supervised prediction task based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Eric S. Qiu , Danielle R. Thomas , Boyuan Guo , Vincent Aleven , Conrad Borchers

Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into educational practice enables personalized learning by accommodating diverse learner behaviors. This study explored diverse learner profiles within a multi-agent, LLM-empowered learning…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhanxin Hao , Jianxiao Jiang , Jifan Yu , Zhiyuan Liu , Yu Zhang

One of the most important areas of todays computer technology is Cloud Computing. Benefits of Cloud Computing in various areas cannot be ignored. One field affected by the opportunities provided by Cloud Computing is education. MOOC emerged…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Mansur Beştaş