The use of predictive analytics powered by machine learning (ML) to model educational data has increasingly been identified to exhibit bias towards marginalized populations, prompting the need for more equitable applications of these techniques. To tackle bias that emerges in training data or models at different stages of the ML modelling…

Analyzing how participants learn from each other during online forums on discussion boards or social media platforms is often challenging. One of the predominant methods of analyzing such learning is through qualitative content analysis or interaction analysis. The Interaction Analysis Model (IAM), developed by Gunawardena, Lowe and Anderson which…

Design science research (DSR) is one of important research paradigms in information systems (IS) that focus on addressing business problems by building and implementing design artifacts. Recently, predictive analytics has become one major stream of DSR thanks to the improvement of computational power and methods and the increase in available…