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Motivation is essential in the learning process of university students, and teachers should have a wide range of strategies to address this issue. The emergence of social technologies has had a considerable influence in e-learning systems,…

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Plagiarism in introductory programming courses is an enormous challenge for both students and institutions. For students, relying on the work of others too early in their academic development can make it impossible to acquire necessary…

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To limit the spread of the novel coronavirus on college campuses, a common strategy for the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 terms has been to offer instruction weighted toward hybrid or fully online modalities. Colleges are now considering…

Class Scheduling is a highly constrained task. Educational institutes spend a lot of resources, in the form of time and manual computation, to find a satisficing schedule that fulfills all the requirements. A satisficing class schedule…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Md. Mushfiqur Rahman , Sabah Binte Noor , Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui

Although online education has become a viable and major component of higher education in many fields, its employment in engineering disciplines has been limited. COVID-19 pandemic compelled the global and abrupt conversion of conventional…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-06-09 Shadnaz Asgari , Jelena Trajkovic , Mehran Rahmani , Wenlu Zhang , Roger C. Lo , Antonella Sciortino

Open source software (OSS) development offers a unique opportunity for students in Software Engineering to experience and participate in large-scale software development, however, the impact of such courses on students' self-efficacy and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Larissa Salerno , Simone de França Tonhão , Igor Steinmacher , Christoph Treude

Comparing with lecturer marked assessments, peer assessment is a more comprehensive learning process and many of the associated problems have occurred. In this research work, we study the peer-assessment impact on group learning activities…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Zhiyuan Chen , Soon Boon Lee , Shazia Paras Shaikh , Mirza Rayana Sanzana

This study introduces a hybrid meta-heuristic for generating feasible course timetables in large-scale scenarios. We conducted tests using our university's instances. The current commercial software often struggles to meet constraints and…

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Recommender systems are widely used to help people find items that are tailored to their interests. These interests are often influenced by social networks, making it important to use social network information effectively in recommender…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Eltayeb Ahmed , Diana Mincu , Lauren Harrell , Katherine Heller , Subhrajit Roy

AI-augmented classrooms generate rich teacher and student feedback before graded outcomes become available, yet these signals can be difficult to translate into timely instructional decisions. We propose an interpretable decision layer: a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junsoo Park , Youssef Medhat , Htet Phyo Wai , Ploy Thajchayapong , Ashok K. Goel

Learning through experience is time-consuming, inefficient and often bad for your cortisol levels. To address this problem, a number of recently proposed teacher-student methods have demonstrated the benefits of private tuition, in which a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Samuel Albanie , James Thewlis , Joao F. Henriques

We investigate how to efficiently set up work groups to boost group productivity, individual satisfaction, and learning. Therefore, we conduct a natural field experiment in a compulsory undergraduate course and study differences between…

General Economics · Economics 2024-03-20 Julius Düker , Alexander Rieber

As a university professor, one of my most important responsibilities is mentoring the junior members of my research group and creating an inclusive environment in which they can thrive. Since my autism diagnosis two years ago, colleagues…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-11-19 Heather E. Logan

Development of conceptual multiple-choice tests related to a particular physics topic is important for designing research-based learning tools to reduce the difficulties. We explore the difficulties that the advanced undergraduate and…

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The growing need for affordable and accessible higher education is a major global challenge for the 21st century. Consequently, there is a need to develop a deeper understanding of the functionality and taxonomy of universities and colleges…

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The number of students who travel abroad to study or are enrolled in a distance learning program outside their home country is growing. According to UNESCO, such students are called internationally mobile students (IMSs) and 5 destination…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-01-19 Maria Spichkova , James Harland , Ahmed Alharthi

We present SmartCourse, an integrated course management and AI-driven advising system for undergraduate students (specifically tailored to the Computer Science (CPS) major). SmartCourse addresses the limitations of traditional advising…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yixuan Mi , Yiduo Yu , Yiyi Zhao

This paper aims to address the challenge of selecting relevant courses for students by proposing the design and development of a course recommendation system. The course recommendation system utilises a combination of data analytics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Rahul Soni , Basem Suleiman , Sonit Singh

Machine Learning models have many potentially beneficial applications in education settings, but a key barrier to their development is securing enough data to train these models. Labelling educational data has traditionally relied on highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Owen Henkel , Libby Hills

Computer science education is a dynamic field with many aspects that influence the learner's path. While these aspects are usually studied in depth separately, it is also important to carry out broader large-scale studies that touch on many…