Section 1. Foundations of cognitive computing and learning analytics. Chapter 1. Understanding student learning behavior and predicting their performance ; Chapter 2. Enhancing the credibility of the decision-making journey through serious games learning analytics ; Chapter 3. Fostering online interactions between learners ; Chapter 4. Principal component analysis on the students' perception of a cognitive assistant for content reinforcement in higher education -- Section 2. Applications and approaches of cognitive computing and learning analytics. Chapter 5. Managing the learner model with multi-entity Bayesian networks in adaptive hypermedia systems ; Chapter 6. Virtual and augmented reality in medical education and training: innovative ways for transforming medical education in the 21st century ; Chapter 7. Eye tracking applications for e-learning purposes: an overview and perspectives ; Chapter 8. The exploration of automated image processing techniques in the study of scientific argumentation ; Chapter 9. Evaluation of mobile apps for Chinese language learning ; Chapter 10. Modern health management with cognitive computing and big data analytics ; Chapter 11. Smart MM: smart movie management system ; Chapter 12. Virtual reality in visual analytics of large datasets.