Can Population-based Engagement Improve Personalisation? A Novel Dataset and Experiments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01504v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:53:24 GMT
• Title: Can Population-based Engagement Improve Personalisation? A Novel Dataset and Experiments
• Authors: Sahan Bulathwela, Meghana Verma, Maria Perez-Ortiz, Emine Yilmaz and John Shawe-Taylor
• Abstract summary: VLE is a novel dataset that consists of content and video based features extracted from publicly available scientific video lectures. Our experimental results indicate that the newly proposed VLE dataset leads to building context-agnostic engagement prediction models. Experiments in combining the built model with a personalising algorithm show promising improvements in addressing the cold-start problem encountered in educational recommenders.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This work explores how population-based engagement prediction can address cold-start at scale in large learning resource collections. The paper introduces i) VLE, a novel dataset that consists of content and video based features extracted from publicly available scientific video lectures coupled with implicit and explicit signals related to learner engagement, ii) two standard tasks related to predicting and ranking context-agnostic engagement in video lectures with preliminary baselines and iii) a set of experiments that validate the usefulness of the proposed dataset. Our experimental results indicate that the newly proposed VLE dataset leads to building context-agnostic engagement prediction models that are significantly performant than ones based on previous datasets, mainly attributing to the increase of training examples. VLE dataset's suitability in building models towards Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence education focused on e-learning/ MOOC use-cases is also evidenced. Further experiments in combining the built model with a personalising algorithm show promising improvements in addressing the cold-start problem encountered in educational recommenders. This is the largest and most diverse publicly available dataset to our knowledge that deals with learner engagement prediction tasks. The dataset, helper tools, descriptive statistics and example code snippets are available publicly.

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