Questions that lead to tools

Learning Analytics & Early Warning

Turning everyday activity in online courses into timely, explainable signals that help instructors act before a student falls behind.

Guiding questions

• Which behaviours signal risk early enough to act on?
• How can alerts explain cause and suggest a next step without overreaching?
• How do students and instructors respond to analytics in practice?

Feeds: EduGauge · Bridge · School Management System · Canvas LMS: Self-Hosted

• EduGauge System: Enhancing student monitoring and analytics in online learning (2025)

AI-Generated Adaptive Feedback

When AI feedback helps learning and when it gets in the way, including the timing question: real-time or delayed.

Guiding questions

• Does real-time AI feedback outperform delayed feedback, and for whom?
• How should human instructors and AI share the feedback role?
• What makes feedback build understanding rather than dependence?

Feeds: EduGauge · Ask JB · Dual Learning: Learn Together · jMAP

• Enhancing assessment of argumentation skills in online learning environments using an AI-driven ensemble model (2026)
• Integration of artificial intelligence into instructional design (2025)
• Developing a personal performance support system with generative AI (2024)

NLP for Educational Discourse

Automated analysis of online discussions and argumentation, so instructors can see the quality of thinking, not just the volume of posts.

Guiding questions

• Can contextual language models assess argumentation reliably?
• What do social and epistemic networks reveal about collaborative learning?

Feeds: EduGauge · EduFadder · JBT Course Translator

• From discussion posts to learning patterns: Understanding engagement and argumentation through social and epistemic network analysis (2026)
• Enhancing assessment of argumentation skills in online learning environments using an AI-driven ensemble model (2026)
• Automated online discussion analysis: Leveraging contextual embeddings and ensemble models (2026)

Computer Vision & Computational Imaging

Image restoration and visual recognition, from despeckling synthetic-aperture radar and ultrasound images to recognising instructional activity in classroom video.

Guiding questions

• How can noisy agricultural SAR and medical ultrasound images be restored without losing detail?
• Can models recognise instructional activities from classroom video at scale, ethically?

• VSCPT-CWA: Variance-stabilized collaborative patch transform with confidence-weighted aggregation for agricultural-SAR despeckling (2026)
• SA-LAIS-PCGS: Speckle-aware restoration and perceptual enhancement of breast synthetic aperture ultrasound images (2025)
• Convolutional neural network to uncover banks’ hidden patterns and unknown correlations (2019)

Self-Directed & Technology-Mediated Learning

Designing technology that strengthens learners’ own decisions (goals, pacing, mastery) instead of making those decisions for them.

Guiding questions

• How can AI scaffold self-direction without taking it over?
• What does mastery-based progression look like for adult and K-12 learners?

Feeds: Ask JB · Dual Learning: Learn Together · CodeCubs

Computational Mixed Methods & Concept Mapping

Combining causal concept maps, network analysis and qualitative insight to understand how learners connect ideas and think critically.

Guiding questions

• How do concept-mapping methods relate to critical thinking?
• How can open-ended maps be analysed at scale?

Feeds: jMAP

• From discussion posts to learning patterns: Understanding engagement and argumentation through social and epistemic network analysis (2026)
• A systematic review of concept mapping and critical thinking: Methodological gaps & research directions (2025)

Instructional Design & Curriculum Innovation

Systematic, evidence-based design of courses, programmes and multilingual learning experiences, including how AI changes the design process itself.

Guiding questions

• How is AI reshaping instructional design practice?
• How does multimodal learning affect knowledge transfer?

Feeds: Dual Learning: Learn Together · EduFadder · Bridge · CodeCubs · JBT Course Translator · Canvas LMS: Self-Hosted · Moodle: Self-Hosted

• A digital annotation tool to deal with educational fads on the internet: EduFadder (2025)
• The effect of multimodal learning on knowledge transfer: Examining intervention and control groups (2025)
• Integration of artificial intelligence into instructional design (2025)

AI Policy, Standards & Digital Transformation

Institutional AI policy, international ICT standards, and digital transformation in higher education and government.

Guiding questions

• How do institutional AI limits shape students’ informal AI use?
• What do academic leaders need to govern generative AI well?

Feeds: Bridge · WeCare · School Management System · POS System

• Impact of institutional AI limitations on K-12 senior high school students’ informal use, attitudes, and learning behaviors (2026)
• Generative AI in higher education: A synthesis of academic leaders’ perspectives (2025)
• The role of e-commerce in agriculture digitization, promoting rural development in Rwanda (2023)