Course Schedule
EDUC545-010: Core Methods in Educational Data Mining
Spring 2017
Professor Ryan Baker


Wednesday, January 11: No class today (university has declared today a Monday)


Wednesday, January 18: Introduction

2pm-3:50pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: NONE

Wednesday, January 25: Clustering. Guest lecture, Alex Bowers.


Readings
Slides: [Alex's pptx] [Ryan's pptx]

Recommended activity: Rapidminer Walkthrough [data file]
Assignments Due: Basic: Clustering

Wednesday, February 1: Regression in Prediction

2pm-3:50pm

Readings Class Data Set [NOT THE ASSIGNMENT DATA SET]: [csv]
Class Code: [RapidMiner xml 1] [RapidMiner xml 2]
Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: NONE

Wednesday, February 8: Classification in Prediction

2pm-3:50pm

Readings Slides: [pptx]
Bonus Slides (Special Session): [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: Classifier

Wednesday, February 15: Behavior and Affect Detection

2pm-3:50pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: Creative: Behavior Detection

Wednesday, February 22: Diagnostic Metrics

2pm-3:50pm

Readings Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: Diagnostic Metrics

Wednesday, March 1: Feature Engineering and Distillation

2pm-3:50pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: None

Wednesday, March 8: No Class, Spring Break


Wednesday, March 15: Association Rule Mining. Guest lecture, Miguel Andres.

2pm-3:50pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Creative: Feature Engineering

Wednesday, March 22: Sequential Pattern Mining

2pm-3:50pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: Sequential Pattern Mining

Wednesday, March 29: Bayesian Knowledge Tracing

2pm-3:50pm

Readings
Class Data Set: [xlsx]
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: BKT

Wednesday, April 5: Performance Factors Analysis and Deep Knowledge Tracing

2pm-3:50pm

Readings Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: PFA

Wednesday, April 12: Knowledge Structure Discovery

2pm-3:50pm

Readings Class Data Set: [xlsx]
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Creative: Knowledge Structure

Tuesday, April 19: Correlation Mining and Causal Mining

2pm-3:50pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: Correlation Mining

Wednesday, April 26: Network Analysis

2pm-3:50pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: Basic: SNA

Wednesday, May 3: Final Exam Presentations

2pm-350pm

Readings
Assignments Due: Creative: Final Presentation