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Visualizing Student Engagement and Performance in Online Course: A Step to Smart Learning Environment

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Students’ Engagement and Performance (EP) of online courses are analyzed and visualized in order to assist instructors in improving student’s performance at an early stage before the end of the academic semester. A fully online course for undergraduate students in the Department of Information Studies, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), was conducted. The total number of students in the course was 38. Students studied each course module and the instructor evaluated them based on a set of assessments. This paper explores the existence of possible relationships between student’s engagement and performance. In this paper, the authors only considered the results of the Mid Term Exam part. They extracted the necessary data for analysis purposes for the above-mentioned factors from the log file of the course. The results revealed promising relationships between the student’s engagement and performance. This indicates the importance of conducting this kind of case study as a step forward to achieve a smart learning environment.

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The authors would like to express their gratitude to Sultan Qaboos University's College of Science and Computer Science. Prof. Zuhoor Al-Khanjari is supervising this project, which is funded by a Doctoral Program scholarship from Sultan Qaboos University.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscut, Sultanate of Oman

    Iman Al-Kindi & Zuhoor Al-Khanjari

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  1. Middlesex University, London, UK

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  3. JIS University, Kolkata, India

    Nilanjan Dey

  4. Global Knowledge Research Foundation, Ahmedabad, India

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Al-Kindi, I., Al-Khanjari, Z. (2023). Visualizing Student Engagement and Performance in Online Course: A Step to Smart Learning Environment. In: Yang, XS., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 448. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1610-6_1

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