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48 results for Educational Engagement

Educational game on crypto investment helps students grasp macroeconomics.

problem Weak connections between microeconomic decision-making and macroeconomic concepts in classroom games.
method Design and study of an educational game on cryptocurrency investment.
result Engages students in understanding macroeconomics through incentivized individual investment decisions.

A dataset for evaluating engagement with scientific video lectures.

problem Challenges in managing learning resources due to rapid creation of video lectures.
method Introduction of VLEngagement dataset with content-based and video-specific features, and metrics related to user engagement.
result The largest and most diverse publicly available dataset for understanding context-agnostic engagement in video lectures.

Semantic TrueLearn uses semantic graphs to improve educational recommendation systems.

problem Challenges in handling semantic and hierarchical structure in knowledge areas.
method Introduces a novel learner model that exploits semantic relatedness between knowledge components using a Wikipedia link graph.
result Achieves statistically significant improvements in predictive performance for educational engagement.

Bayesian model identifies skill difficulties and student subgroups in engineering education.

problem Identifying and supporting diverse student needs in entry-level university engineering modules.
method Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of student response data.
result Clear patterns of skill mastery and distinct student subgroups identified.

The Web has enabled one of the most visible recent developments in education---the deployment of massive open online courses. With their global reach and often staggering enrollments, MOOCs have the potential to become a major new mechanism for learning. Despite this early promise, however, MOOCs are still relatively u…

2014-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

One of the most ambitious use cases of computer-assisted learning is to build a recommendation system for lifelong learning. Most recommender algorithms exploit similarities between content and users, overseeing the necessity to leverage sensible learning trajectories for the learner. Lifelong learning thus presents un…

2019-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

AR app visualizes Quranic Surah al-Fil for Islamic education.

problem Lack of interactive and context-rich learning materials for Quranic studies.
method Research and development approach, including data collection, user requirement analysis, interface design, 3D asset creation, and integration of AR technology.
result AR application achieved high accuracy and user satisfaction, enhancing learner engagement and understanding.

Research identifies four motivational groups for crypto-metaverse landowners.

problem Understanding motivations of retail investors in the crypto-metaverse.
method Detailed financial behavior survey and principal components analysis.
result Four distinct motivational groups identified: Aesthetics, Social, Speculation, Innovation.

Study finds farmers are willing to pay higher premiums for higher coverage in agricultural insurance.

problem Determining the demand factors and WTP for agricultural insurance.
method Conducted a survey of 200 farmers to analyze the impact of socio-demographic variables and premium on insurance purchase decisions.
result Farmers are willing to pay higher premiums for higher coverage in agricultural insurance.

EduQG generates better educational questions by pre-training on scientific text.

problem Improving the quality of educational questions for scalable self-assessment.
method Adapting a large language model for educational question generation, pre-trained on scientific text.
result EduQG produces superior educational questions compared to baseline models.

Paper proposes a method to aggregate customer engagement data for better ranking of e-commerce results.

problem Cold start problem and under-representation of new or under-impressed products in e-commerce search results.
method Aggregates customer engagements within a day for the same query as input training data for machine learning models.
result Training models on aggregated data leads to better ranking of new and under-impressed products.

FATE predicts user engagement on social apps with explainable explanations.

problem Accurate user engagement prediction for social apps with explainability.
method FATE, a flexible neural framework incorporating friendships, actions, and temporal dynamics.
result FATE outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by 10% error and 20% runtime reduction.

Topologically and geometrically engaging actions have proved to be useful to obtain rigidity results for semisimple Lie group actions. We show that the action of a simple noncompact Lie group on a compact manifold preserving a unimodular rigid geometric structure of algebraic type (e.g. a connection together with a vol…

2012-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Impersonators on Online Social Networks such as Instagram are playing an important role in the propagation of the content. These entities are the type of nefarious fake accounts that intend to disguise a legitimate account by making similar profiles. In addition to having impersonated profiles, we observed a considerab…

2020-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Study analyzes factors influencing healthcare providers' engagement with SMS campaigns.

problem Understanding what drives healthcare providers to engage with SMS campaigns.
method Used logistic regression, random forest, and neural network models to analyze data.
result Identified key factors influencing engagement with SMS campaigns.

TrueLearn Python library for personalized educational recommendations.

problem Building educational recommendation systems with humanly-intuitive user representations.
method Online learning Bayesian models and open learner concept.
result Library includes models and representations for user control and interpretability.

In this paper the correlation between education, research and macroeconomic strength of countries at a global scale is analyzed on the basis of statistical data published by the UNIDO and OECD. It uses sets of composite indicators describing the economical performance and competitiveness as well as those relevant for h…

2007-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Tailoring the presentation of information to the needs of individual students leads to massive gains in student outcomes~\cite{bloom19842}. This finding is likely due to the fact that different students learn differently, perhaps as a result of variation in ability, interest or other factors~\cite{schiefele1992interest…

2018-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves content allocation in educational platforms with sparse data.

problem Imbalanced content allocation and delayed convergence in adaptive strategies.
method Introduces WAPTS, an algorithm that refines Thompson Sampling for data-sparse environments.
result Demonstrates earlier and more reliable identification of promising treatments.

Given that South African education is in crisis, strategies for improvement and sustainability of high-quality, up-to-date education must be explored. In the migration of education online, inclusion of machine translation for low-resourced local languages becomes necessary. This paper aims to spur the use of current ne…

2018-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Model predicts higher education dropout risk with interpretable parameters.

problem Predicting and understanding student dropout risk in higher education.
method Sparse interpretable post-clustering logistic regression.
result Model identifies distinct dropout risk subgroups within the student population.

The paper proposes a survival model to optimize mobile notification delivery times.

problem Inappropriate notification timing and interruptions lead to user complaints.
method Developed a state transition framework and a survival model with log-linear and Weibull structures.
result The survival model outperforms logistic regression in prediction accuracy.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), autonomously-guided aircraft, are widely used for tasks involving surveillance and reconnaissance. A version of the pursuit-evasion problems centered around UAVs and its variants has been extensively studied in recent years due to numerous breakthroughs in AI. We present an approach to …

2019-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗