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AfriLearn Lens: Explainable Behavioural Engagement Detection for Students in Low-Resource African Learning Environments

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education

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softwarepaper
Creator:
Ola
Publisher:
Zenodo
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Predicting and understanding student engagement in online learning environments remains a critical challenge, particularly in African contexts where low-resource infrastructure limits the depth of available data. This paper introduces AfriLearn Lens, a machine learning pipeline that applies XGBoost classification and SHAP-based explainability to predict three-tier student engagement levels (Low, Medium, High) from Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) behavioural signals, using the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset (OULAD). The model achieves 80.78% accuracy on a held-out test set of 6,519 students. SHAP analysis reveals that temporal behavioural features — specifically active_days and unique_resources — are substantially stronger predictors of engagement than demographic variables. All code and results are available at github.com

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student engagementeducational data miningXGBoostSHAPexplainable AIlearning analyticsAfricaOULADSupervised Machine LearningMachine learning

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