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Social networks are rich source of data to analyze user habits in all aspects of life. User's behavior is decisive component of a health system in various countries. Promoting good behavior can improve the public health significantly. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Shova Bhandari , Rini Raju

Most education and workplace learning takes place in classroom contexts far removed from laboratories or field sites with special arrangements for scientific research. But digital online resources provide a novel opportunity for large scale…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Joseph Jay Williams , Juho Kim , Brian C. Keegan

The focus of this research was to use Educational Data Mining (EDM) techniques to conduct a quantitative analysis of students interaction with an e-learning system through instructor-led non-graded and graded courses. This exercise is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-12-30 I. P. Ratnapala , R. G. Ragel , S. Deegalla

This work is an attempt to discover hidden structural configurations in learning activity sequences of students in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Leveraging combined representations of video clickstream interactions and forum…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Tanmay Sinha , Nan Li , Patrick Jermann , Pierre Dillenbourg

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

People in conversation entrain their linguistic behaviours through spontaneous alignment mechanisms [7] - both in face-to-face and computer-mediated communication (CMC) [8]. In CMC, one of the mechanisms through which linguistic entrainment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Bruno D. Ferreira-Saraiva , Joao P. Matos-Carvalho , Manuel Pita

Student-to-student interactions are foundational to many active learning environments, but are most often studied using qualitative methods. Network analysis tools provide a quantitative complement to this picture, allowing researchers to…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-07-17 Adrienne L. Traxler

Understanding the structure and evolution of web-based user-object networks is a significant task since they play a crucial role in e-commerce nowadays. This Letter reports the empirical analysis on two large-scale web sites,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-14 Mingsheng Shang , Linyuan Lu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Tao Zhou

We study the problem of predicting student knowledge acquisition in online courses from clickstream behavior. Motivated by the proliferation of eLearning lecture delivery, we specifically focus on student in-video activity in lectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yun-Wei Chu , Elizabeth Tenorio , Laura Cruz , Kerrie Douglas , Andrew S. Lan , Christopher G. Brinton

We examine the process of engineering features for developing models that improve our understanding of learners' online behavior in MOOCs. Because feature engineering relies so heavily on human insight, we argue that extra effort should be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Kalyan Veeramachaneni , Una-May O'Reilly , Colin Taylor

Theories developed by Tinto and Nora identify academic performance, learning gains, and involvement in learning communities as significant facets of student engagement that, in turn, support student persistence. Collaborative learning…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-02-09 Eric A. Williams , Justyna P. Zwolak , Remy Dou , Eric Brewe

Community detection on social media has attracted considerable attention for many years. However, existing methods do not reveal the relations between communities. Communities can form alliances or engage in antagonisms due to various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Amin Salehi , Hasan Davulcu

This work concerns the analysis of number, sizes and other characteristics of groups identified in the blogosphere using a set of models identifying social relations. These models differ regarding identification of social relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Bogdan Gliwa , Jarosław Koźlak , Anna Zygmunt , Krzysztof Cetnarowicz

Social Reinforcement Learning methods, which model agents in large networks, are useful for fake news mitigation, personalized teaching/healthcare, and viral marketing, but it is challenging to incorporate inter-agent dependencies into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Mahak Goindani , Jennifer Neville

In collaborative learning, learners coordinate to enhance each of their learning performances. From the perspective of any learner, a critical challenge is to filter out unqualified collaborators. We propose a framework named meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Chenglong Ye , Reza Ghanadan , Jie Ding

Heterogeneity has been a hot topic in recent educational literature. Several calls have been voiced to adopt methods that capture different patterns or subgroups within students behavior or functioning. Assuming that there is an average…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-13 Luca Scrucca , Mohammed Saqr , Sonsoles López-Pernas , Keefe Murphy

Peer-grouping is used in many sectors for organisational learning, policy implementation, and benchmarking. Clustering provides a statistical, data-driven method for constructing meaningful peer groups, but peer groups must be compatible…

Applications · Statistics 2021-07-14 Daniel William Kennedy , Jessica Cameron , Paul Pao-Yen Wu , Kerrie Mengersen

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

MOOCs offer free and open access to a wide audience, but completion rates remain low, often due to a lack of personalized content. To address this issue, it is essential to predict learner performance in order to provide tailored feedback.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Anass El Ayady , Maxime Devanne , Germain Forestier , Nour El Mawas

The software for clustering students according to their educational achievements using fuzzy logic was developed in Python using the Google Colab cloud service. In the process of analyzing educational data, the problems of Data Mining are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Serhiy Balovsyak , Oleksandr Derevyanchuk , Hanna Kravchenko , Yuriy Ushenko , Zhengbing Hu