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Main Authors: Ayady, Anass El, Devanne, Maxime, Forestier, Germain, Mawas, Nour El
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21118
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author Ayady, Anass El
Devanne, Maxime
Forestier, Germain
Mawas, Nour El
author_facet Ayady, Anass El
Devanne, Maxime
Forestier, Germain
Mawas, Nour El
contents MOOCs offer free and open access to a wide audience, but completion rates remain low, often due to a lack of personalized content. To address this issue, it is essential to predict learner performance in order to provide tailored feedback. Behavioral traces-such as clicks and events-can be analyzed as time series to anticipate learners' outcomes. This work compares multivariate time series classification methods to identify at-risk learners at different stages of the course (after 5, 10 weeks, etc.). The experimental evaluation, conducted on the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset (OULAD), focuses on three courses: two in STEM and one in SHS. Preliminary results show that the evaluated approaches are promising for predicting learner failure in MOOCs. The analysis also suggests that prediction accuracy is influenced by the amount of recorded interactions, highlighting the importance of rich and diverse behavioral data.
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spellingShingle Failure Risk Prediction in a MOOC: A Multivariate Time Series Analysis Approach
Ayady, Anass El
Devanne, Maxime
Forestier, Germain
Mawas, Nour El
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
MOOCs offer free and open access to a wide audience, but completion rates remain low, often due to a lack of personalized content. To address this issue, it is essential to predict learner performance in order to provide tailored feedback. Behavioral traces-such as clicks and events-can be analyzed as time series to anticipate learners' outcomes. This work compares multivariate time series classification methods to identify at-risk learners at different stages of the course (after 5, 10 weeks, etc.). The experimental evaluation, conducted on the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset (OULAD), focuses on three courses: two in STEM and one in SHS. Preliminary results show that the evaluated approaches are promising for predicting learner failure in MOOCs. The analysis also suggests that prediction accuracy is influenced by the amount of recorded interactions, highlighting the importance of rich and diverse behavioral data.
title Failure Risk Prediction in a MOOC: A Multivariate Time Series Analysis Approach
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21118