Philip Purnell


2023

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Enhancing Video-based Learning Using Knowledge Tracing: Personalizing Students’ Learning Experience with ORBITS
Shady Shehata | David Santandreu Calonge | Philip Purnell | Mark Thompson
Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)

As the world regains its footing following the COVID-19 pandemic, academia is striving to consolidate the gains made in students’ education experience. New technologies such as video-based learning have shown some early improvement in student learning and engagement. In this paper, we present ORBITS predictive engine at YOURIKA company, a video-based student support platform powered by knowledge tracing. In an exploratory case study of one master’s level Speech Processing course at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, half the students used the system while the other half did not. Student qualitative feedback was universally positive and compared the system favorably against current available methods. These findings support the use of artificial intelligence techniques to improve the student learning experience.