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DOI:   10.3217/jucs-021-01-0093

 

Towards a Learning-Aware Application Guided by Hierarchical Classification of Learner Profiles

Behnam Taraghi (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

Anna Saranti (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

Martin Ebner (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

Vinzent Müller (UnlockYourBrain GmbH, Germany)

Arndt Großmann (UnlockYourBrain GmbH, Germany)

Abstract: Learner profiling is a methodology that draws a parallel from user profiling. Implicit feedback is often used in recommender systems to create and adapt user profiles. In this work the implicit feedback is based on the learner's answering behaviour in the Android application UnlockYourBrain, which poses different basic mathematical questions to the learners. We introduce an analytical approach to model the learners' profile according to the learner's answering behaviour. Furthermore, similar learner's profiles are grouped together to construct a learning behaviour cluster. The choice of hierarchical clustering as a means of classification of learners' profiles derives from the observations of learners behaviour. This in turn reflects the similarities and subtle differences of learner behaviour, which are further analysed in more detail. Building awareness about the learner's behaviour is the first and necessary step for future learning-aware applications.

Keywords: Markov chain, dimension reduction, hierarchical clustering, learner profiling, learning analytics

Categories: L.2.2, M.0, M.4, M.5