Classifying Students in Flipped Learning Pedagogy Exploiting EEG Signals and Deep Learning Techniques
摘要
Flipped learning is an emerging teaching pedagogy gaining popularity in academia. In this methodology, students are given pre-recorded lectures to watch as homework before coming to the live classroom. In the classroom, students engage in activities like problem-solving, peer teaching, projects, and presentations. However, this methodology lacks a way to monitor student attention while watching the pre-recorded lecture videos, which could lead to a decrease in their learning outcomes. We address this problem by designing a multi-output deep learning model to categorize students as attentive or non-attentive. The proposed model is an autoencoder-classifier neural network that uses brain waves (EEG signals) collected from students while watching the lecture videos. The model analyzes the brain waves to classify whether a student was attentive or not while watching a particular lecture video. We conducted experiments using a dataset specifically collected for flipped learning pedagogy in the laboratory. Experimental results are evaluated with standard performance metrics such as precision, recall, F1-score, and accuracy. The proposed model outperforms other classification models, including EEGNet, Shallow ConvNet, Deep ConvNet, Siamese Neural Network (SNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN).