Classification of Student's Confusion Level in E-Learning using Machine Learning

Abstract

With the advancement of technology, the traditional mode of teaching-learning pedagogy has evolved into online education system as it is easily accessible. But, it is very difficult to detect whether the students are ‘confused’ or ‘not confused’ while watching online videos. Getting confused while watching online videos is one of the root causes of less performance of the students. Keeping in mind the above statements, we would like to investigate whether the students are ‘confused’ or ‘not confused’ while watching Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) videos. There are a lot of studies that prove electroencephalogram (EEG) signals behave differently as we are in different conditions such as happy, sad, angry, etc. So, in this paper, we have applied several supervised learning algorithms to detect if the students are ‘confused’ or ‘not confused’ while watching MOOC videos using EEG data. The results of this paper show that machine learning is a potential technique, for the analysis of EEG data that can detect the confusion level of the students which is comparable to human observation for predicting the confusion level of the students that can improve the quality of online education system.