Are You Confused? Predicting Student Confusion in Proof Helper

Using EEG to Improve Massive Open Online Courses Feedback Interaction

Unlike classroom education, immediate feedback from the student is less accessible in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). A new type of sensor for detecting students’ mental states is a single-channel EEG headset simple enough to use in MOOC. Using its signal from adults watching MOOC video clips in a pilot study, we trained and tested classifiers to detect when the student is confused while wa...

Exploring the Relationship between Novice Programmer Confusion and Achievement

Using a discovery-with-models approach, we study the relationships between novice Java programmers’ experiences of confusion and their achievement, as measured through their midterm examination scores. Two coders manually labeled samples of student compilation logs with whether they represent a student who was confused. From the labeled data, we built a model that we used to label the entire da...

TICI: if you are not confused, then you are not paying attention.

Freedom from stress: a holistic approach.

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This freedom from stress a holistic approa...

Chapter XXX Specifying history and backtracking mechanisms

Most hypertext systems and in particular most web browsers include some form of history mechanism. These allow users to see where they have been and to return to previous locations. The form of such mechanisms varies: some are stack based, others keep a full trace of all previously visited locations. Users are often confused by these mechanisms and this confusion is also reflected in some speci...