Distance learning universities usually afford their students the flexibility to advance their studies at their own pace. This can lead to a considerable fluctuation of student populations within a program's courses, possibly affecting the academic viability of a program as well as the related required resources. Providing a method that estimates this population could be of substantial help to university management and academic personnel. We describe how to use course precedence constraints to calculate alternative tuition paths and then use Markov models to estimate future populations. In doing so, we identify key issues of a large scale potential deployment.
In this paper, we propose an AI based approach to Trailer Generation in the form of short videos for online educational courses. Trailers give an overview of the course to the learners and help them make an informed choice about the courses they want to learn. It also helps to generate curiosity and interest among the learners and encourages them to pursue a course. While it is possible to manually generate the trailers, it requires extensive human efforts and skills over a broad spectrum of design, span selection, video editing, domain knowledge, etc., thus making it time-consuming and expens…
We present a demonstration of REACT, a new Real-time Educational AI-powered Classroom Tool that employs EDM techniques for supporting the decision-making process of educators. REACT is a data-driven tool with a user-friendly graphical interface. It analyzes students' performance data and provides context-based alerts as well as recommendations to educators for course planning. Furthermore, it incorporates model-agnostic explanations for bringing explainability and interpretability in the process of decision making. This paper demonstrates a use case scenario of our proposed tool using a real-w…
Since its introduction in 2011, there have been over 4000 MOOCs on various subjects on the Web, serving over 35 million learners. MOOCs have shown the ability to democratize knowledge dissemination and bring the best education in the world to every learner. However, the disparate distances between participants, the size of the learner population, and the heterogeneity of the learners' backgrounds make it extremely difficult for instructors to interact with the learners in a timely manner, which adversely affects learning experience. To address the challenges, in this thesis, we propose a frame…
A Pre-Trained Graph-Based Model for Adaptive Sequencing of Educational Documents
Université Paris-Saclay（巴黎萨克雷大学）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；ENS Paris-Saclay（巴黎萨克雷高等师范学校）；Centre Borelli（博雷利中心）；onepoint（onepoint公司）；University of Augsburg（奥格斯堡大学）；Inria Saclay（法国国家信息与自动化研究所萨克雷分部）；University of Pittsburgh（匹兹堡大学）
Current Educational system uses grades or marks to assess the performance of the student. The marks or grades a students scores depends on different parameters, the main parameter being the difficulty level of a course. Computation of this difficulty level may serve as a support for both the students and teachers to fix the level of training needed for successful completion of course. In this paper, we proposed a methodology that estimates the difficulty level of a course by mapping the Bloom's Taxonomy action words along with Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria …
A Controlled Synthetic Benchmark for Educational Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Intelligent Systems, Afeka Academic College of Engineering（阿法卡学术工程智能系统学院）；School of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Holon Institute of Technology（霍洛技术学院计算机科学学院）
Programming skills are rapidly becoming essential for many educational paths and career opportunities. Yet, for many international students, the traditional approach to teaching introductory programming courses can be a significant challenge due to the complexities of the language, the lack of prior programming knowledge, and the language and cultural barriers. This study explores how large language models and gamification can scaffold coding learning and increase Chinese students sense of belonging in introductory programming courses. In this project, a gamification intelligent tutoring syste…
Various studies have shown that students tend to get higher marks when assessed through coursework based assessment methods which include either modules that are fully assessed through coursework or a mixture of coursework and examinations than assessed by examination alone. There are a large number of educational data mining studies that preprocess data through conventional data mining processes including data preparation process, but they are using transcript data as they stand without looking at examination and coursework results weighting which could affect prediction accuracy. This paper …
Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Course-specific Semantically Annotated Learning Objects
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg（弗里德里希-亚历山大-埃尔兰根-纽伦堡大学）；Professorship for Computer Science Education（计算机科学教育教授席位）；Professorship for Knowledge Representation and Management（知识表示与管理教授席位）
An Open-Source Dual-Loss Embedding Model for Semantic Retrieval in Higher Education
University of Iowa（爱荷华大学）；IIHR – Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa（爱荷华大学IIHR水科学与工程研究所）；Tulane University（杜兰大学）；ByWater Institute, Tulane University（杜兰大学ByWater研究所）
