Researchers use AI to track students' performance in online courses

What insights might be gleaned from an education platform that's entirely online? In a newly published paper on the preprint server Arxiv.org They say their method allowed for tracking changes in behavior among students over time, as well as trends in the broader educational system. "How students behave … is an important topic in educational data mining. Knowledge of this behavior in an educational system can help us understand how students learn and help guide the development for optimal learning based on actual use," wrote the coauthors.