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Compiling Questions into Balanced Quizzes about Documents

Robert West, Cristina Menghini

In the educational framework, knowledge assessment is a critical component, and quizzes (sets of questions with concise answers) are a popular tool for this purpose. This paper focuses on the generation of balanced quizzes, i.e., quizzes that relate to a g ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Research and Education in Computational Science and Engineering

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven

This report presents challenges, opportunities, and directions for computational science and engineering (CSE) research and education for the next decade. Over the past two decades the field of CSE has penetrated both basic and applied research in academia ...

2018

Online Adaptive Methods, Universality and Acceleration

Volkan Cevher, Alp Yurtsever

We present a novel method for convex unconstrained optimization that, without any modifications, ensures: (i) accelerated convergence rate for smooth objectives, (ii) standard convergence rate in the general (non-smooth) setting, and (iii) standard converg ...

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS)2018

Ten Years of Research on Intelligent Educational Games for Learning Spelling and Mathematics

In this article, we present our findings from ten years of research on intelligent educational games. We discuss the architecture of our training environments for learning spelling and mathematics, and specifically focus on the representation of the conten ...

2018

Ten Years of Research on Intelligent Educational Games for Learning Spelling and Mathematics

2018

Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hang Yin, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

Social robots are being used to create better educational scenarios, thereby fostering children's learning. In the work presented here, we describe an autonomous social robot that was designed to enhance children's handwriting skills. Exploiting the benefi ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

A Case Study on the Effect of Using an Anchored-Discussion Forum in a Programming Course

Jean-Philippe Pellet

In the context of a programming course taught to college freshmen, we give an account of the switch from a classical, Moodle-based discussion forum to MIT's NotaBene (NB) platform. One of the defining features of NB is to anchor each discussion thread to a ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Virtual Reality as a Vehicle to Empower Motor-Cognitive Neurorehabilitation

Andrea Serino

In this paper, we advocate the combination of four key ingredients that we believe are necessary to design long-lasting effective treatments for neurorehabilitation: (i) motor-cognitive training, (ii) evidence-based neuroscience principles, in particular t ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2018

Knowledge Transfer with Jacobian Matching

François Fleuret, Suraj Srinivas

Classical distillation methods transfer representations from a “teacher” neural network to a “student” network by matching their output activations. Recent methods also match the Jacobians, or the gradient of output activations with the input. However, thi ...

2018

Orchestration Graphs: Enabling Rich Social Pedagogical Scenarios in MOOCs

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Stian Haklev, Thanasis Hadzilacos

One of the initial promises of MOOCs was to enable participants from around the world to learn and build knowledge together, however existing MOOC platforms are very limited in their collaborative functionality. Using a recent educational modeling language ...

ACM2017