Data Mining and Computational Intelligence for E-Learning and Education—2nd Edition

A special issue of Data (ISSN 2306-5729). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Systems and Data Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 2043

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, the rise of artificial intelligence has driven its application in various fields, including education. Applications can be found aimed at analyzing the data of the learning-teaching activity, both in the face-to-face environment and in distance-learning environments, through intelligent algorithms with the aim of extracting information about the educational process. From this information, it is possible to infer aspects such as the reasons for the success or failure of students, patterns of behavior and learning, and other predictions. Likewise, applications have also been developed that implement intelligent algorithms with the aim of automating the educational process. Related to this last point is the development of chatbots and approaches to ethics in the use of artificial intelligence. In this sense, an area of interest has developed relating to the application of artificial intelligence to problem solving in education. The objective of this Special Issue is to bring together works that show the latest advances in the application of artificial intelligence to the educational field, as well as those describing specific experiences and applications to certain problems.

The objective of this Special Issue is to serve as a meeting point for all researchers working in these fields, both theoretically and applied. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Machine learning applied to e-learning and education;
  • Artificial intelligence applied to e-learning and education;
  • Big data and e-learning;
  • Intelligent learning systems;
  • Data analysis applied to e-learning and education;
  • Intelligent systems for e-learning;
  • Ethical aspects of the application of AI in education;
  • E-learning analytics;
  • Data mining for e-learning and education;
  • Chatbots for education.

Both review articles on the state of the art and experimental or theoretical articles are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • e-learning
  • machine learning
  • artificial intelligence
  • data analysis
  • algorithms
  • big data

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Predicting Academic Success of College Students Using Machine Learning Techniques
by Jorge Humberto Guanin-Fajardo, Javier Guaña-Moya and Jorge Casillas
Data 2024, 9(4), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9040060 - 22 Apr 2024
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College context and academic performance are important determinants of academic success; using students’ prior experience with machine learning techniques to predict academic success before the end of the first year reinforces college self-efficacy. Dropout prediction is related to student retention and has been [...] Read more.
College context and academic performance are important determinants of academic success; using students’ prior experience with machine learning techniques to predict academic success before the end of the first year reinforces college self-efficacy. Dropout prediction is related to student retention and has been studied extensively in recent work; however, there is little literature on predicting academic success using educational machine learning. For this reason, CRISP-DM methodology was applied to extract relevant knowledge and features from the data. The dataset examined consists of 6690 records and 21 variables with academic and socioeconomic information. Preprocessing techniques and classification algorithms were analyzed. The area under the curve was used to measure the effectiveness of the algorithm; XGBoost had an AUC = 87.75% and correctly classified eight out of ten cases, while the decision tree improved interpretation with ten rules in seven out of ten cases. Recognizing the gaps in the study and that on-time completion of college consolidates college self-efficacy, creating intervention and support strategies to retain students is a priority for decision makers. Assessing the fairness and discrimination of the algorithms was the main limitation of this work. In the future, we intend to apply the extracted knowledge and learn about its influence of on university management. Full article
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An EEG Dataset of Subject Pairs during Collaboration and Competition Tasks in Face-to-Face and Online Modalities
by María A. Hernández-Mustieles, Yoshua E. Lima-Carmona, Axel A. Mendoza-Armenta, Ximena Hernandez-Machain, Diego A. Garza-Vélez, Aranza Carrillo-Márquez, Diana C. Rodríguez-Alvarado, Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos and Mauricio A. Ramírez-Moreno
Data 2024, 9(4), 47; https://doi.org/10.3390/data9040047 - 27 Mar 2024
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This dataset was acquired during collaboration and competition tasks performed by sixteen subject pairs (N = 32) of one female and one male under different (face-to-face and online) modalities. The collaborative task corresponds to cooperating to put together a 100-piece puzzle, while the [...] Read more.
This dataset was acquired during collaboration and competition tasks performed by sixteen subject pairs (N = 32) of one female and one male under different (face-to-face and online) modalities. The collaborative task corresponds to cooperating to put together a 100-piece puzzle, while the competition task refers to playing against each other in a one-on-one classic 28-piece dominoes game. In the face-to-face modality, all interactions between the pair occurred in person. On the other hand, in the online modality, participants were physically separated, and interaction was only allowed through Zoom software with an active microphone and camera. Electroencephalography data of the two subjects were acquired simultaneously while performing the tasks. This article describes the experimental setup, the process of the data streams acquired during the tasks, and the assessment of data quality. Full article
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