The use of digital textbooks in education provides valuable data on student reading behavior that can help educators refine their course materials and instructional design for future iterations. Previous studies have explored methods for extracting important evidence from this data, but they require manual intervention. By automating these methods, this paper introduces an end-to-end system capable of extracting evidence from e-book data and providing recommendations for slides' content review based on this evidence. Our system incorporates information about reading preferences into the evidence-extraction process and implements Large Language Models (LLMs) for automatic interpretation. Six teachers evaluated our proposed system indicating a promising level of effectiveness, while also highlighting areas for future improvement to ensure a successful classroom implementation. These include considerations for improving the actionability of recommendations, improving the identification of content that needs refinement, and improving the performance of LLMs.

Abstract In this paper, we propose a cross-language font style transfer system that can synthesize a new font by observing only a few samples from another language. Automatic font synthesis is a challenging task and has attracted much research interest. Most previous works addressed this problem by transferring the style of the given subset to the content of unseen ones. Nevertheless, they only focused on the font style transfer in the same language. In many cases, we need to learn font style from one language and then apply it to other languages. Existing methods make this difficult to accomplish because of the abstraction of style and language differences. To address this problem, we specifically designed the network into a multi-level attention form to capture both local and global features of the font style. To validate the generative ability of our model, we constructed an experimental font dataset of 847 fonts, each containing English and Chinese characters with the same style. Results show that our model generates 80.3% of users’ preferred images compared with state-of-the-art models.

Background subtraction networks outperform traditional hand-craft background subtraction methods. The main advantage of background subtraction networks is their ability to automatically learn background features for training scenes. When applying the trained network to new target scenes, adapting the network to the new scenes is crucial. However, few studies have focused on reusing multiple trained models for new target scenes. Considering background changes have several categories, such as illumination changes, a model trained for each background scene can work effectively for the target scene similar to the training scene. In this study, we propose a method to ensemble the module networks trained for each background scene. Experimental results show that the proposed method is significantly more accurate compared with the conventional methods in the target scene by tuning with only a few frames.

Handwritten notes are one important component of students’ learning process, which is used to record what they have learned in class or tease out knowledge after class for reflection and further strengthen the learning effect. It also helps a lot during review. We hope to divide handwritten notes (Japanese) into different parts, such as text, mathematical expressions, charts, etc., and quantify them to evaluate the condition of the notes and compare them among students. At the same time, data on students’ learning behaviors in the course are collected through the online education platform, such as the use time of textbook and attendance, as well as the scores of the online quiz and course grade. In this paper, the analysis of the relationship between the segmentation results of handwritten notes and learning behavior are reported, as well as the research on automatic page segmentation based on deep learning.

In this paper, we propose a novel model FTransGAN that can transfer font styles between different languages by observing only a few samples. The automatic generation of a new font library is a challenging task and has been attracting many researchers' interests. Most previous works addressed this problem by transferring the style of the given subset to the content of unseen ones. Nevertheless, they only focused on the font style transfer in the same language. In many tasks, we need to learn the font information from one language and then apply it to other languages. It's difficult for the existing methods to do such tasks. To solve this problem, we specifically design our network into a multi-level attention form to capture both local and global features of the style images. To verify the generative ability of our model, we construct an experimental font dataset which includes 847 fonts, each of them containing English and Chinese characters with the same style. Experimental results show that compared with the state-of-the-art models, our model generates 80.3% of all user preferred images.

We propose a new change detection method using clickstream data collected through an e-Book system. Most of the prior work has focused on the batch processing of clickstream data. In contrast, the proposed method is designed for online processing, with the model parameters for change detection updated sequentially based on observations of new click events. More specifically, our method generates a model for an individual student and performs minute-by-minute change detection based on click events during a classroom lecture. We collected clickstream data from four face-to-face lectures, and conducted experiments to demonstrate how the proposed method discovered change points and how such change points correlated with the students' performances.

To discover teaching knowledge efficiently, we must extract the various teaching activities from educational data. In this paper, through the use of e-book logs and techniques of time-series analysis, we describe a method of practicing teaching analytics in face-to-face classes, one which enable us to extract the teaching activity efficiently and accurately.

Students' reflective writings are useful not only for students themselves but also teachers. It is important for teachers to know which concepts were understood well by students and which concepts were not, to continuously improve their classes. However, it is difficult for teachers to thoroughly read the journals of more than one hundred students. In this paper, we propose a novel method to extract common topics and students' common impressions against them from students' journals. Weekly keywords are discovered from journals by scoring noun words with a measure based on TF-IDF term weighting scheme, and then we analyze co-occurrence relationships between extracted keywords and adjectives. We employs nonnegative matrix factorization, one of the topic modeling techniques, to discover the hidden impression topics from the co-occurrence relationships. As a case study, we applied our method on students' journals of the course "Information Science" held in our university. Our experimental results show that conceptual keywords are successfully extracted, and four significant impression topics are identified. We conclude that our analysis method can be used to collectively understand the impressions of students from journal texts.

Many universities choose the C programming language (C) as the first one they teach their students, early on in their program. However, students often consider programming courses difficult, and these courses often have among the highest dropout rates of computer science courses offered. It is therefore critical to provide more effective instruction to help students understand the syntax of C and prevent them losing interest in programming. In addition, homework and paper-based exams are still the main assessment methods in the majority of classrooms. It is difficult for teachers to grasp students' learning situation due to the large amount of evaluation work. To facilitate teaching and learning of C, in this article we propose a system---LAPLE (Learning Analytics in Programming Language Education)---that provides a learning dashboard to capture the behavior of students in the classroom and identify the different difficulties faced by different students looking at different knowledge. With LAPLE, teachers may better grasp students' learning situation in real time and better improve educational materials using analysis results. For their part, novice undergraduate programmers may use LAPLE to locate syntax errors in C and get recommendations from educational materials on how to fix them.