A General Model for Detecting Learner Engagement: Implementation and Evaluation
This work addresses the need for instructors to monitor and improve learner engagement in educational settings, though it is incremental as it builds on existing datasets and methods.
The paper tackles the problem of detecting learner engagement from video data by proposing a general, lightweight model that processes features while preserving temporal relationships, achieving an accuracy of 68.57% and outperforming state-of-the-art models.
Considering learner engagement has a mutual benefit for both learners and instructors. Instructors can help learners increase their attention, involvement, motivation, and interest. On the other hand, instructors can improve their instructional performance by evaluating the cumulative results of all learners and upgrading their training programs. This paper proposes a general, lightweight model for selecting and processing features to detect learners' engagement levels while preserving the sequential temporal relationship over time. During training and testing, we analyzed the videos from the publicly available DAiSEE dataset to capture the dynamic essence of learner engagement. We have also proposed an adaptation policy to find new labels that utilize the affective states of this dataset related to education, thereby improving the models' judgment. The suggested model achieves an accuracy of 68.57\% in a specific implementation and outperforms the studied state-of-the-art models detecting learners' engagement levels.