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Explainable and fair early warning system for academic risk prediction in online higher education

Sep 2026 · International Journal of Data Science and Analysis · Vol 22 · 0 citations · 54 references

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An explainable and fair early warning system for predicting student withdrawal from the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset and releases BurnoutGuard, an open-source Moodle plugin that provides a reproducible and transparent framework for equity-aware early warning.

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