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Personalized Online Adaptive Learning System

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20H01719
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 09070:Educational technology-related
Research InstitutionTokyo Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

クロス ジェフリーS  東京工業大学, 環境・社会理工学院, 教授 (90532044)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥8,580,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,980,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Keywordsオンライン学習 / 個人学習 / 学習管理システム / 仮想現実 / 人工知能 / メタ認知 / ラーニング分析 / eラーニング / 機械学習 / 教育技術 / 個人化された学習
Outline of Research at the Start

Metacognition, or the knowledge and regulation of one's thinking process, includes skills such as goal setting and knowledge monitoring which helps learners improve their learning or make learning more efficient. This research helps learners develop metacognitive skills by creating an adaptive learning online engine for domain-specific courses. It uses natural language processing and machine learning techniques to obtain course improvement points and will customize course materials for individual learners based upon their prior knowledge upon the project conclusion in 2024.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

Personal Online Analytic Learning System (POALS) is a web-based learning management system (LMS) developed to help learners succeed when taking online learning courses. The system was developed using the open edX LMS and has been tested with learners in 3 online classes at Tokyo Tech. It is made up of three components: 1) the Metacognitive Tutor to equip students with metacognitive skills needed for autonomous learning crucial to online learning, 2) the Adaptive Engine to help students manage the cognitive strain of having metacognitive tutoring alongside domain knowledge learning, and the 3) Analytics Dashboard based on student responses on the Metacognitive Tutor to give feedback to teachers on where learner interventions might be needed. In 2021, a new component was added called AI Kaku which is AI assisted writing tool. Key takeaways from this research include which metacognitive skills can be learned independently and which ones require nudging from teachers, which algorithms can work best for knowledge tracing while considering metacognitive measures, and how text data from learner metacognitive reflections can be used for learning analytics. Regarding research achievements, one peer review journal paper was published, one invited conference talk, and 9 conference papers were presented at domestic and international conferences. In addition, a doctoral student conducting this research won the best presentation award at the IEEE Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE) conference in Dec. 2021 based upon this research.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

POALS is a web-based system designed to help learners succeed in online learning environments. It is made up of three components as stated above. The research consists of the LMS development covering data handling, analysis and testing it in online course with actual learners. The research is actually on-schedule as denoted by the number of publications and conference presentations. The research for 2022 will focus on developing the instructor analytics dashboard. In addition, research will be conducted on personalized learning using head mounted displays for immersive learning. Furthermore, research will be conducted on gaze tracking on images that appear online learning courses. Finally, research will be conducted on using natural language processing and analysis of data to provide a narrative to the instructor to share with learners regarding their progress in an online course.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

The POALS research plan for AY 2022 will focus on developing an Instructor Analytics Dashboard. The dashboard is needed to summarize the learner assessment data via graphs and natural language processed narratives that the instructor can use to feedback to the learner to encourage learning and course engagement. It should be noted that POALS was originally developed for use in a web browser on a computer display or tablet. However, recently educational technology has advanced and 360 degree videos can be viewed on youtube and with a head mounted display (HMD) to study online content giving the online learner a virtual reality (VR) immersive experience. A learning module will be developed on the topic of architecture and evaluated using 360 degrees videos watched in HMD to investigate learner engagement. In addition, research results which were obtained last year will be submitted as journal papers and submitted to international conferences. A workshop will be organized at the ACM Learning at Scale international 2022 online conference to present how to prepare multi-branched stories online for teaching and learning purposes.

Report

(2 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • 2020 Annual Research Report

Research Products

(19 results)

All 2022 2021 2020

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (17 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Invited: 1 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Exploring an AI-based Writing Assistant Impact on English Language Learners2022

    • Author(s)
      Gayed, John Maurice and Carlon, May Kristine Jonson and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Journal Title

      Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence

      Volume: 3 Pages: 100055-100055

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100055

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] POALS Analytics Engine: a student affect dashboard2021

    • Author(s)
      Carlon, May Kristine Jonson and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Organizer
      Eighth UK Japan Engineering Education League Workshop
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] NLP in the classroom: An introduction to an AI-based writing application2021

    • Author(s)
      Gayed, John Maurice and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Organizer
      The 2021 Annual Spring Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Computer literacy and digital divide: Preliminary research results2021

    • Author(s)
      Gougeon, Luc and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Organizer
      The 2021 Annual Spring Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Open response prompts in an online metacognitive tutor2021

    • Author(s)
      Carlon, May Kristine Jonson and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Organizer
      The 2021 Annual Spring Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Computational Fluency and the Digital Divide in Japanese Higher Education2021

    • Author(s)
      Gougeon, Luc and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Organizer
      29th International Conference on Computers in Education
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Learning analytics dashboard prototype for implicit feedback from metacognitive prompt responses2021

    • Author(s)
      Carlon, May Kristine Jonson and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Organizer
      29th International Conference on Computers in Education
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Japanese Elementary Schools Playful Programming Curriculum Considerations: Readiness, Limitations and Teacher Training2021

    • Author(s)
      Gougeon, Luc and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Organizer
      IEEE Conference for Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Development of open-response prompt-based metacognitive tutor for online classrooms2021

    • Author(s)
      Carlon, May Kristine Jonson and Gayed, John Maurice and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Organizer
      IEEE Conference for Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Natural language processing based analytics dashboard for online learning platforms2021

    • Author(s)
      Carlon, May Kristine Jonson and Cross, Jeffrey Scott
    • Organizer
      The 2022 Annual Spring Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] International Track - Plenary Round Table: Perspectives of Global and Regional MOOC Providers2021

    • Author(s)
      C. Mongenet, U. Kanjilal, M. Jenner, R. H. Rizzardine, S. Halawa, J.S. Cross
    • Organizer
      ACM 2021 Learning at Scale Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] A Review of Quantitative Offline Measurement Tools for Computer-Based Metacognitive Tutoring Effectiveness Assessment2020

    • Author(s)
      May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Jeffrey Scott Cross.
    • Organizer
      IEEE 2020 International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Content Type Distribution and Readability of MOOCs2020

    • Author(s)
      May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Nopphon Keerativoranan, Jeffrey Scott Cross.
    • Organizer
      Seventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, Association for Computing Machinery,
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Global Learning at Scale2020

    • Author(s)
      David A. Joyner, May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Jeffrey Scott Cross, Eduardo Corpo, Rocael Hernandez Rizzardini, Oscar Rodas, Dhawal Shah, Manoel Cortes-Mendez, Thomas Staubitz, Jose; Ruirez-Valiente
    • Organizer
      v
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Countering Negative Matthew Effect in Undergraduate Research with Metacognition and Digital Learning2020

    • Author(s)
      May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Cheyvuth Seng, Jeffrey Scott Cross
    • Organizer
      he 2020 Annual Fall Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Developing Learner Metacognitive Skills on an Online Environment2020

    • Author(s)
      May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Jeffrey Scott Cross
    • Organizer
      The 2020 Annual Spring Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology,
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] POALS analytics engine: A student affect dashboard2020

    • Author(s)
      May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Jeffrey Scott Cross
    • Organizer
      The Eighth UK Japan Engineering Education League Workshop
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Open response prompts in an online metacognitive tutor2020

    • Author(s)
      May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Jeffrey Scott Cross.
    • Organizer
      The 2021 Annual Spring Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Global learning at Workshop, The 2021 Annual Spring Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology2020

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2023-04-18  

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