Scalable Monitoring of Student Interaction Indicators in Exploratory Learning Environments

Abstract

We present and evaluate a web-based architecture for monitoring student-system interaction indicators in Exploratory Learning Environments (ELEs), using as our case study a microworld for secondary school algebra. We discuss the challenging role of teachers in exploratory learning settings and motivate the need for visualisation and notification tools that can assist teachers in focusing their attention across the class and inform teachers' interventions. We present an architecture that can support such Teacher Assistance tools and demonstrate its scalability to allow concurrent usage by thousands of users (students and teachers).

Monitoring Students’ Attention in a Classroom Through Computer Vision

“…The first contribution of this paper is a thorough revision of the state of the art on monitoring classrooms. There is already some work done in this area, such as apps and social networks for monitoring the students activities as mentioned in [5] or Teacher Assistance apps as shown in [6]. However, as the title suggests, our main focus is a non-invasive approach using cameras placed in convenient spots of the classroom.…”