The emergence of big data in educational contexts has led to new data-driven approaches
to support informed decision making and efforts to improve educational effectiveness. Digital …

Educational big data is becoming a strategic educational asset, exceptionally significant in
advancing educational reform. The term educational big data stems from the rapidly growing …

With cross-disciplinary academic interests increasing and academic advising resources over
capacity, the importance of exploring data-assisted methods to support student decision …

The dropout rates in the European countries is one of the major issues to be faced in a near
future as stated in the Europe 2020 strategy. In 2017, an average of 10.6% of young people …

In recent years, the rapid growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has attracted
much attention for related research. Besides, one of the main challenges in MOOCs is the …

The prediction of student performance is one of the major issues in many higher education
institutions throughout the world. This issue is lately detected due to the lack of a proper …

With the emergence of novel methods for improving machine learning (ML) transparency,
traditional decision-support-focused information systems seem to need an upgrade in their …

Virtual learning environment is becoming an increasingly popular study option for students
from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds around the world. Although this …

With the rapid emergence of K-12 online learning platforms, a new era of education has
been opened up. It is crucial to have a dropout warning framework to preemptively identify K …

School dropout is considered a complex problem and one that cuts across several levels of
analysis. The development of predictive models has been a more dynamic and proactive …