- Online Learning and Analytics
- Online and Blended Learning
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- E-Learning and Knowledge Management
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Advanced Computing and Algorithms
- Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Seismology and Earthquake Studies
- Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
- Team Dynamics and Performance
- Teaching and Learning Programming
- Video Analysis and Summarization
- Educational Innovations and Technology
- Flow Experience in Various Fields
- Education and Learning Interventions
- Web Data Mining and Analysis
Central China Normal University
2021-2024
In a massive open online courses (MOOCs) learning environment, it is essential to understand students' social knowledge constructs and critical thinking for instructors design intervention strategies. The development of can be represented by cognitive presence, which primary component the community inquiry model. However, identifying learners' presence challenging problem, most researchers have performed this task using traditional machine methods that require both manual feature...
Reflection plays a very important role in the learning process, contributing to improved performance and potentially influencing cognitive process. Few studies, however, have used computer-based mind mapping enhance student reflective activities examine relationship between reflection, presence, outcomes. Therefore, quasi-experiment was implemented by recruiting students from big data class at normal university central China. The collected analyzed jointly using analysis of covariance,...
Wearable devices are an emerging technological tool in the field of learning analytics. With help wearable technologies, increasing number scholars have a strong interest studying associations between student data and outcomes different environments. This systematic review examines 120 articles published 2011 2021, exploring current research on analytics based detail from both descriptive content analysis. The analysis reviewed included literature five dimensions: publication times...
MOOCs are online learning platforms that offer free and open educational resources for global learners. Its forums enable learners to interact with instructors peers thus improve their outcomes social presence. However, may struggle find posts match goals preferences due the large scale diversity of MOOCs. A well-designed MOOC forum thread recommendation system can help overcome information overload experience. In this paper, we consider threads as a link prediction problem propose novel...
The blended course has shown its great potential to facilitate student learning. To understand students' psychological status and social interaction, this study explores flow level, centrality, academic achievement in a curriculum. Specifically, the aims investigate fluctuation of over time, participation students at different levels, relationship among three factors. Therefore, 13-week experiment was conducted on curriculum computer science, which total 35 freshmen were involved. results...
Interactive discussion is an important component of online learning. discourses reflect different levels cognitive engagement, and analyzing learners' engagement in beneficial for teachers to grasp learning status improve the course quality. However, using traditional automatic text classification models analyze requires a large amount labeled data, which time-consuming laborious. In this paper, we propose semi-supervised training method based on Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC)...