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Publication Date: 2015-Jun
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Evaluating the Relevance of Educational Videos Using BKT and Big Data
MacHardy, Zachary; Pardos, Zachary A.
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (8th, Madrid, Spain, Jun 26-29, 2015)
Along with the advent of MOOCs and other online learning platforms such as Khan Academy, the role of online education has continued to grow in relation to that of traditional on-campus instruction. Rather than tackle the problem of evaluating large educational units such as entire online courses, this paper approaches a smaller problem: exploring a framework for evaluating more granular educational units, in this case, short educational videos. We have chosen to leverage an adaptation of traditional Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT), intended to incorporate the usage of video content in addition to assessment activity. By exploring the change in predictive error when alternately including or omitting video activity, we suggest a metric for determining the relevance of videos to associated assessments. To validate our hypothesis and demonstrate the application of our proposed methods we use data obtained from both the popular Khan Academy website and two MOOCs offered by Stanford University in the summer of 2014. [For complete proceedings, see ED560503.]
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Video Technology, Units of Study, Multimedia Materials, Instructional Material Evaluation, Bayesian Statistics, Relevance (Education), Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Statistical Data, School Statistics, Models, Evaluation Methods
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Language: English
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