Educational Data Science: Essentials, Approaches, and Tendencies

Prof. Alejandro Peña-Ayala, is professor of Artificial Intelligence on Education & cognition in the School of Electric & Mechanical Engineering of the National Polytechnic Institute of México. Dr. Peña-Ayala has published more than 50 scientific works and is author of three machine learning patents (two of them in progress to be authorized), including the role of guest-editor for six Springer Book Series and guest-editor for an Elsevier journal. He is fellow of the National Researchers System of Mexico, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Academy of Engineering, and the Mexican Academy of Informatics. Professor Peña-Ayala was scientific visitor of the MIT in 2016, made his postdoc at the Osaka University 2010-2012, and earned with honors his PhD, M. Sc., & B. Sc. in computer sciences, artificial intelligence, and informatics respectively.

1. Engaging in Student-Centered Educational Data Science through Learning Engineering.- 2. A review of clustering models in educational data science towards fairness-aware learning.- 3. Educational Data Science: Is an “Umbrella Term” or an Emergent Domain?.- 4. Educational Data Science Approach for End-to-End Quality Assurance Process for Building Credit-Worthy Online Courses.- 5. Understanding the Effect of Cohesion in Academic Writing Clarity Using Education Data Science.- 6. Sequential pattern mining in educational data: the application context, potential, strengths, and limitations.- 7. Sync Ratio and Cluster Heat Map for Visualizing Student Engagement.