A new approach for educational data analytics with wearable devices

Abstract

The rapid development of wearable technologies has dramatically promoted the potential usages of wearable devices in educational data analytics. However, the large amount of input data and the various types of educational output labels also increase the difficulties in selecting the useful information and discovering the implicit relations between different input data. To address this issue, this paper proposed a new two-layer approach for conducting educational data analytics automatically. In this approach, there are three key components: input layer, output layer and recognition model. For the input layer, we adopted the newly proposed optimization algorithm: Adaptive Multi-Population Optimization (AMPO) to select the most related input features and suitable model structures. For the output layer, we inserted domain-specific constraints during the searching for all combinations of different output labels to discover a meaningful output strategy with a relatively higher accuracy. Based on the input elements and output strategy provided by the input layer and the output layer, the recognition model will produce the corresponding recognition accuracy. With these three components, our proposed method can find out some connotative information to provide guidance for conducting educational data analytics and drawing meaningful conclusions.