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Doctoral Colloquium—How Interactivity and Presence Affect Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Mixed Methods Study Design (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fern, N., Cristea, A. I., Nolan, S., & Stewart, C. (2024, June). Doctoral Colloquium—How Interactivity and Presence Affect Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Mixed Methods Study Design. Presented at 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

This doctoral colloquium paper describes a mixed-methods study to investigate the impact of high interactivity Immersive Virtual Reality (iVR) materials on learning in higher education. It is motivated by the changing landscape of iVR technology and... Read More about Doctoral Colloquium—How Interactivity and Presence Affect Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Mixed Methods Study Design.

Paraphrase Generation and Identification at Paragraph-Level (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al Saqaabi, A., Stewart, C., Akrida, E., & Cristea, A. I. (2024, June). Paraphrase Generation and Identification at Paragraph-Level. Presented at Generative Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems ITS 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece

PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nagai, T., Klem, S., Kayama, M., Asuke, T., Meccawy, M., Wang, J., Cristea, A. I., Stewart, C. D., & Shi, L. (2023, May). PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art. Presented at 2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Kuwait

The STEAM approach in education has been gaining increasing popularity over the last decade. This is due to its potential in enhancing students' learning, when teaching arts and scientific disciplines together. This paper introduces the PICA-PICA con... Read More about PICA-PICA: Exploring a Customisable Smart STEAM Educational Approach via a Smooth Combination of Programming, Engineering and Art.

Forum-based Prediction of Certification in Massive Open Online Courses (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsheri, M. A., Alamri, A., Cristea, A. I., & Stewart, C. D. (2021, September). Forum-based Prediction of Certification in Massive Open Online Courses. Presented at 29th International Conference on Information systems and Development (ISD2021), Valencia, Spain

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been suffering a very level of low course certification (less than 1% of the total number of enrolled students on a given online course opt to purchase its certificate), although MOOC platforms have been offer... Read More about Forum-based Prediction of Certification in Massive Open Online Courses.

GamiCSM: relating education, culture and gamification - a link between worlds (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toda, A., Klock, A. C. T., Palomino, P. T., Rodrigues, L., Oliveira, W., Stewart, C., Cristea, A. I., Gasparini, I., & Isotani, S. (2020, October). GamiCSM: relating education, culture and gamification - a link between worlds. Presented at 19th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Diamantina, Brazil

The potential of gamification to improve users' motivation and engagement influenced many researchers and professionals to analyse its effects in educational settings. While some studies focus on adapting game elements according to demographic and be... Read More about GamiCSM: relating education, culture and gamification - a link between worlds.

How is learning fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs fine-grained temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cristea, A., Alshehri, M., Alamri, A., Kayama, M., Stewart, C., & Shi, L. (2018, October). How is learning fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs fine-grained temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers. Presented at 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018)., Lund

Data-intensive analysis of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is popular. Researchers have been proposing various parameters conducive to analysis and prediction of student behaviour and outcomes in MOOCs, as well as different methods to analyse and... Read More about How is learning fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs fine-grained temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers.

Earliest Predictor of Dropout in MOOCs: A Longitudinal Study of FutureLearn Courses (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cristea, A., Alamri, A., Kayama, M., Stewart, C., Alsheri, M., & Shi, L. (2018, October). Earliest Predictor of Dropout in MOOCs: A Longitudinal Study of FutureLearn Courses. Presented at 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018)., Lund, Sweden

Whilst a high dropout rate is a well-known problem in MOOCs, few studies take a data-driven approach to understand the reasons of such a phenomenon, and to thus be in the position to recommend and design possible adaptive solutions to alleviate it. I... Read More about Earliest Predictor of Dropout in MOOCs: A Longitudinal Study of FutureLearn Courses.

Can Learner Characteristics Predict Their Behaviour on MOOCs? (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cristea, A. I., Alamri, A., Alshehri, M., Kayama, M., Foss, J., Shi, L., & Stewart, C. D. (2018, December). Can Learner Characteristics Predict Their Behaviour on MOOCs?. Presented at 10th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers - ICETC '18, Tokyo

Stereotyping is the first type of adaptation in education ever proposed. However, the early systems have never dealt with the numbers of learners that current MOOCs provide. Thus, the umbrella question that this work tackles is if learner characteris... Read More about Can Learner Characteristics Predict Their Behaviour on MOOCs?.

Earliest Predictor of Dropout in MOOCs: A Longitudinal Study of FutureLearn Courses (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cristea, A. I., Alamri, A., Kayama, M., Stewart, C., Alshehri, M., & Shi, L. (2018, August). Earliest Predictor of Dropout in MOOCs: A Longitudinal Study of FutureLearn Courses. Presented at 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018)., Lund, Sweden

Whilst a high dropout rate is a well-known problem in MOOCs, few studies take a data-driven approach to understand the reasons of such a phenomenon, and to thus be in the position to recommend and design possible adaptive solutions to alleviate it. I... Read More about Earliest Predictor of Dropout in MOOCs: A Longitudinal Study of FutureLearn Courses.

How is Learning Fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs Fine-grained Temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers and Designers (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cristea, A. I., Alamri, A., Kayama, M., Stewart, C., Alshehri, M., & Shi, L. (2018, December). How is Learning Fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs Fine-grained Temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers and Designers. Presented at 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018), Lund, Sweden

Data-intensive analysis of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is popular. Researchers have been proposing various parameters conducive to analysis and prediction of student behaviour and outcomes in MOOCs, as well as different methods to analyse and... Read More about How is Learning Fluctuating? FutureLearn MOOCs Fine-grained Temporal Analysis and Feedback to Teachers and Designers.

On the need for fine-grained analysis of Gender versus Commenting Behaviour in MOOCs (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alshehri, M., Foss, J., Cristea, A. I., Kayama, M., Shi, L., Alamri, A., & Tsakalidis, A. (2018, June). On the need for fine-grained analysis of Gender versus Commenting Behaviour in MOOCs. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations (ICIEI'18), London

Stereotyping is the first type of adaptation ever proposed. However, the early systems have never dealt with the numbers of learners that current Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide. Thus, the umbrella question that this work tackles is if le... Read More about On the need for fine-grained analysis of Gender versus Commenting Behaviour in MOOCs.

An intuitive Authoring System for a Personalised, Social, Gamified, Visualisation-supporting e-learning System (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alamri, A., Rusby, H., Cristea, A. I., Khan, J., Shi, L., & Stewart, C. (2018, June). An intuitive Authoring System for a Personalised, Social, Gamified, Visualisation-supporting e-learning System. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Information and Education Innovations (ICIEI'18), London

Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH) offers more advanced personalisation and customisation features to the field of e-learning compared to the outdated static systems (where every learner is given the same set of learning materials). AEH can improv... Read More about An intuitive Authoring System for a Personalised, Social, Gamified, Visualisation-supporting e-learning System.

Serendipitous learning \& serious games: A Pilot Study (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gallear, W., Lameras, P., & Stewart, C. (2014, December). Serendipitous learning \& serious games: A Pilot Study. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2014) IEEE

A game-based learning approach to road safety: the code of everand (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dunwell, I., de Freitas, S., Petridis, P., Hendrix, M., Arnab, S., Lameras, P., & Stewart, C. (2014, December). A game-based learning approach to road safety: the code of everand. Presented at Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM

Developing a digital game to support cultural learning amongst immigrants (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dunwell, I., Lameras, P., Stewart, C., Petridis, P., Arnab, S., Hendrix, M., de Freitas, S., Gaved, M., Schuller, B., & Paletta, L. (2013, December). Developing a digital game to support cultural learning amongst immigrants. Presented at In Proc. 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (IDGEI 2013) in conjunction with the 8th Foundations of Digital Games