Proceedings of The 2017 International Conference on Advanced Technologies Enhancing Education (ICAT2E 2017)

Session: Learning Analytics

14 articles
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A Case Study of Blended Teaching for Control Theory Course in Tsinghua University

Qianchuan Zhao, Zhijin Zhijin Cheng
This study aims to share the experiences of two instructors as they implement innovative methods (i.e., blended teaching approach) in teaching control theory in Tsinghua University. Group learning, students' mutual teaching, incentive mechanisms, and online courses are designed to improve the teaching...
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Online teaching platform-starC and its applications in blended learning

Jiangbo Shu, Taihe Cao, Xingfang Zhang, Zhaoli Zhang, Hai Liu, Zhenhua Li
With the rapid development of information technology, blended learning as a worldwide hot topic in the field of education has attracted domestic and foreign researchers' attention including academic organizations, practitioners and education managers. In view of the shortage of the low efficiency in...
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Emotion Analysis in Gasoline Consumption

Dafne Rosso, Joel Armando Colin Pacheco, Luis Miralles
Emotions Analysis is a market intelligence technique used to analyze opinions of people about certain company aspects such as product image, product consumption, marketing campaigns, clients' preferences and social or political movements. The relevance of Emotions Analysis research lies in the enormous...
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Open and Networked Education: Learning the future of learning

Elisabete Barros, Antonio Jose Osorio
The analysis about Education and current educational settings (or educative technological contexts) leads to the need for reflection and study on the state of school as a public space and on their role in relation to the promotion and development of skills of children and youth, either at European or...
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Neural networks at the human mind: translator's hidden layers

Anna Aguilar-Amat
This article is based on training process for students to become specialized translators and post-editors. Any language mediator working within specialized communication may use a graphic representation to outline the contents of a text in a particular domain. The aim of this graphic depiction is to...
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Alignment of Standards using WordNet for Assessing K-12 Engineering Practices in a Participatory Learning Environment

Sam Shuster, Erin Shaw
Student assessment based on advanced computational methods will play a critical role in 21st century educational practices. In this paper we describe the challenge of automating the instructional assessment of student discourse based on national standards, in the context of an experimental participatory...
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Research on the Knowledge Visualization Teaching Based on the Double-Whiteboard

Zhaoli Zhang, Zhifei Li, Hai Liu, Jiangbo Shu
Knowledge visualization plays an increasingly important role in the field of educational communication. However, most researches follow with interest a specific subject knowledge. Accordingly, we present the knowledge visualization by using different visualization tools based on the knowledge classification....
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Annotation of a Learner Corpus toward Development of an Error-cause Presenting Technique

Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi
Previous grammar checkers support learners' writing by indicating errors and correct usages. However, until the lack of linguistic knowledge that caused the errors is corrected, similar errors will recur. This study developed a learner corpus by annotating tags for the causes of article errors, and analyzed...
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MCRS: A Course Recommendation System for MOOCs

Tao Huang, Gaoqiang Zhan, Hao Zhang, Heng Yang
With the popularization of MOOC platform, there is a tendency of big data in the number of online courses. Efficient and appropriate course recommendation can improve learning efficiency. According to the characteristics of MOOC platform, MCRS has made great improvement in course recommendation model...
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When do Learners Lose Their Motivation? -Automated Classification of Learners' Type in Maintaining their Motivation from the Behavior in LMS-

Yuki Kitanaka
Currently, learning with e-learning system has been actively performed. An e-learning system affords the learners arrange their learning schedule on demand and provides some advantages if the learners have enough motivation. In other words, success of use of such system depends on motivation of the learner....
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Improving Teaching Materials through Digital Book Reading Log

Zhuo Ren, Noriko Uosaki, Etsuko Kumamoto, Gi-Zen Liu, Chengjiu Yin
Nowadays, it is easy to create digital books. However, through many university teachers create their own digital books as their teaching materials, it is difficult to evaluate and improve. In this paper, based on our previous research on the learning behavior analysis results, we prototype a digital...
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Research on Data-driven Feedback Teaching Service

Jiangbo Shu, Li Wang, Xu Wang, Min Zhi, Taihe Cao, Hai Liu
In recent years, most of the teaching service models in universities are linear in the exploration of big data in education, and people who use data are mainly researchers and policy makers, the process of data generation is static. Aiming at this problem, this paper proposes a data-driven feedback teaching...
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How to Mine Student Behavior Patterns in the Traditional Classroom

Chengjiu Yin
Many learning analyses focus on online learning courses, such as massive open online courses (MOOCs). The analysis of learning behaviors from access log data is expected to be of benefit to instructors and learners. However, there are few studies that focus on the reading logs of digital textbooks in...
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Relationship between Learning Achievement and Learning Strategies in the use of Digital Textbook Reading Logs

Chengjiu Yin, Yong Wang
Much research has used questionnaires to examine the effectiveness of preview/review strategies; however, it is difficult to find evidence of whether the students have actually done a preview/review or not, since the collection of questionnaire data is subjective. Through collecting learning log data,...