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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

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

We introduce new techniques for extracting, analyzing, and visualizing textual contents from instructional videos of low production quality. Using Automatic Speech Recognition, approximate transcripts (H75% Word Error Rate) are obtained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Alexander Haubold , John R. Kender

The impact of MOOC courses in the processes of distance learning has been extremely important from the very beginning. They offer an innovative model of massive teaching, which exploits in a paradigmatic manner the potential and relevance…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Jessica Perez-Parras , Jose Gomez-Galan

University course ranking forums are a popular means of disseminating information about satisfaction with the quality of course content and instruction, especially with undergraduate students. A variety of policy decisions by university…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Taha Hassan

Techniques for clustering student behaviour offer many opportunities to improve educational outcomes by providing insight into student learning. However, one important aspect of student behaviour, namely its evolution over time, can often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jessica McBroom , Kalina Yacef , Irena Koprinska

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…

In order to obtain reliable accuracy estimates for automatic MOOC dropout predictors, it is important to train and test them in a manner consistent with how they will be used in practice. Yet most prior research on MOOC dropout prediction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Jacob Whitehill , Kiran Mohan , Daniel Seaton , Yigal Rosen , Dustin Tingley

Videos are a commonly-used type of content in learning during Web search. Many e-learning platforms provide quality content, but sometimes educational videos are long and cover many topics. Humans are good in extracting important sections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Junaid Ahmed Ghauri , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth

We propose a new online learning model for learning with preference feedback. The model is especially suited for applications like web search and recommender systems, where preference data is readily available from implicit user feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Pannagadatta K. Shivaswamy , Thorsten Joachims

We describe mechanisms for the allocation of a scarce resource among multiple users in a way that is efficient, fair, and strategy-proof, but when users do not know their resource requirements. The mechanism is repeated for multiple rounds…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-17 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Gur-Eyal Sela , Joseph E Gonzalez , Michael I Jordan , Ion Stoica

Recommender systems operate in closed feedback loops, where user interactions reinforce popularity bias, leading to over-recommendation of already popular items while under-exposing niche or novel content. Existing bias mitigation methods,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Rahul Agarwal , Amit Jaspal , Saurabh Gupta , Omkar Vichare

Active learning comprises many varied techniques that engage students actively in the construction of their understanding. Because of this variation, different active learning techniques may be best suited to achieving different learning…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-11 Sarah A. Jacobson , Luyao Zhang , Jiasheng Zhu

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

People increasingly use videos on the Web as a source for learning. To support this way of learning, researchers and developers are continuously developing tools, proposing guidelines, analyzing data, and conducting experiments. However, it…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Evelyn Navarrete , Andreas Nehring , Sascha Schanze , Ralph Ewerth , Anett Hoppe

Analyzing student behavior in educational scenarios is crucial for enhancing teaching quality and student engagement. Existing AI-based models often rely on classroom video footage to identify and analyze student behavior. While these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xian Gao , Jiacheng Ruan , Jingsheng Gao , Mingye Xie , Zongyun Zhang , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Considering learner engagement has a mutual benefit for both learners and instructors. Instructors can help learners increase their attention, involvement, motivation, and interest. On the other hand, instructors can improve their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Somayeh Malekshahi , Javad M. Kheyridoost , Omid Fatemi

Bottlenecks such as the latency in correcting assignments and providing a grade for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) could impact the levels of interest among learners. In this proposal for an auto-grading system, we present a method to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Swapneel Mehta , Chirag Raman , Nitin Ayer , Sameer Sahasrabudhe

In this paper, we introduce a new dataset for student engagement detection and localization. Digital revolution has transformed the traditional teaching procedure and a result analysis of the student engagement in an e-learning environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Amanjot Kaur , Aamir Mustafa , Love Mehta , Abhinav Dhall

Demonstration ordering, which is an important strategy for in-context learning (ICL), can significantly affects the performance of large language models (LLMs). However, most of the current approaches of ordering require high computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yinpeng Liu , Jiawei Liu , Xiang Shi , Qikai Cheng , Yong Huang , Wei Lu