Students in a learning experience can be seen as a community working simultaneously (and in some cases collaboratively) in a set of activities. During these working sessions, students carry out numerous actions that affect ...

Students' acquisition of generic skills is a key to their incorporation into the job world. However, teachers encounter several difficulties when measuring their students' performance in generic skills. These difficulties ...

Learning Analytics (LA) have a significant impact in learning and teaching processes. These can be improved using the available data retrieved from the students' activity inside the virtual classrooms of a LMS. This process ...

The number of students opting for online educational platforms has been on the rise in recent years. Despite the upsurge, student retention is still a challenging task, with some students recording low-performance margins ...

Learning analytics (LA) has become a key area of study in educology, where it could assist in customising teaching and learning. Accordingly, it is precisely this data analysis technique that is used in a sensor—AnalyTIC—designed ...

It is quite complex to adapt instruction to student needs in view of online education owing to the ensuing communication disconnection in such learning environments. Decision support schemes offer assistance by automatically ...

Usability has been identified as one of the top unsolved challenges to improve a visual presentation of any type of information. The design and implementation of a visualization tool should incorporate usability by design, ...

The interactions that students have with each other, with the instructors, and with educational resources are valuable indicators of the effectiveness of a learning experience. The increasing use of information and ...

In the past few years, interest in applying intelligent data-mining techniques to educational datasets has increased rapidly, with goals ranging from identifying students who need further support to being able to infer or ...

Learning analytics (LA) in educational games is considered an emerging practice due to its potential of enhancing the learning process. Growing research on formative assessment has shed light on the ways in which students' ...