An Intelligent Web-Based System for Measuring Students' Attention Levels

摘要

With the growing popularity of online education, new challenges arise. One of those challenges, which result from the loss of face-to-face interaction, is the inability to track student's intentional response to instructional content and resources chosen or designed by an instructor. This paper describes an intelligent system that attempts to address this challenge by monitoring student attention while students watch videos in a platform called MyEDBOX. Educators and instructional designers can then use the feedback gathered from the system to evaluate both the individual intentional needs of students and the effectiveness of certain instructional content and resources used in an online course, and adapt the course accordingly. While the results from testing this system are varied, they provide insight that will be used to refine an attention tracking system that can be easily configured and used in a Learning Management System (LMS).