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Personalized Online Adaptive Learning System

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23K20186
Project/Area Number (Other) 20H01719 (2020-2023)
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund (2024)
Single-year Grants (2020-2023)
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 2024)
Budget Amount *help
¥8,580,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,980,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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 / personalized learning / AI / dashboard / edtech / online learning / machiine learning / metacognition / LMS / software / 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

The Personalized Online Adaptive Learning System (POALS) is a web-based add-on to a learning management system (LMS) developed to help learners succeed when taking online learning courses. 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 for the instructor.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

The Personalized Online Adaptive Learning System (POALS) is a web-based add-on to a learning management system (LMS) developed to help learners succeed when taking online learning courses. 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 variation of POALS' Metacognitive Tutor was added to AI Kaku, an AI-assisted writing tool also created at the PI's laboratory. In 2022, the focus had been on adaptive learning through capacity-building in gamification and virtual reality. 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. Research achievements for 2022 include one peer review journal paper published and 9 conference presentations for both domestic and international conferences.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.

Reason

We recently external support from a company that helped developed part of the integrated POALS dashboard for the instructor. As a result the research is a head of schedule.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

The POALS research plan for AY 2023 will focus on evaluating 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. Large language models similar to those used by ChatGPT will be used for create feedback narratives to be displayed in the Analytics Dashboard. Aside from the NLP flair, the Analytics Dashboard is being upgraded to support drilldown analytics. The effectiveness of the drilldown analytics will be analyzed from the human-computer interaction (how usable is the system) and informatics (how useful is the information) lenses. The work on Analytics Dashboard may span up to two years. Elementary school teacher readiness in teaching programming from two years ago will be resumed. This complementary research is expected to contribute to the overall goal of POALS by shedding an understanding on teachers' capability to use ICT for instruction, which is the condition where POALS is situated at. In addition, research results which were obtained last year will be submitted as journal papers and submitted to international conferences.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • 2020 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (26 results)

All 2022 2021 2020

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (22 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 15 results,  Invited: 1 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Knowledge tracing for adaptive learning in a metacognitive tutor2022

    • Author(s)
      CARLON May Kristine Jonson, Jeffrey S. Cross
    • Journal Title

      Open Education Studies

      Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Pages: 206-224

    • DOI

      10.1515/edu-2022-0013

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Exploring an AI-based writing assistant's impact on English language learners2022

    • Author(s)
      Gayed John Maurice、Carlon May Kristine Jonson、Oriola Angelu Mari、Cross Jeffrey S.
    • Journal Title

      Computers and 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] Predicting Guesses and Slips Through Question Encoding with Complexity Hints2022

    • Author(s)
      May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Sangwhan Moon, Naoaki Okazaki, Jeffrey S. Cross
    • Organizer
      IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2022
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Impact on Second Language Writing via an Intelligent Writing Assistant and Metacognitive Training2022

    • Author(s)
      Gayed, J. M., Carlon, M. K. J., Cross, J. S.
    • Organizer
      2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Analytics-Driven Motivation Nudges on Online Learning Platforms2022

    • Author(s)
      May Kristine Jonson Carlon
    • Organizer
      30th International Conference on Computers in Education
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Matthew effect in CALL: Examining the equity of a novel intelligent writing assistant as English language support2022

    • Author(s)
      ohn M. Gayed, May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Jeffrey S. Cross
    • Organizer
      The XXIst International CALL Research Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Simulated Gaze Tracking using Computer Vision for Virtual Reality2022

    • Author(s)
      Huu Nhat Huy Tran, May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Jeffrey Scott Cross
    • Organizer
      2022 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN)
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • 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] Workshop: Creating Fun and Adaptive Lessons with Twine, IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2022, Dec. 2022.2022

    • Related Report
      2022 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: 2024-08-08  

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