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Pierre Dillenbourg, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno

Various technological applications for body posture correction have been proposed in order to improve handwriting or facilitate its learning for children, under the common-sense assumption that a better posture promotes better handwriting. However, very li ...

2024

Trusting the Explainers: Teacher Validation of Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Course Design

Vinitra Swamy, Mirko Marras, Sijia Du

Deep learning models for learning analytics have become increasingly popular over the last few years; however, these approaches are still not widely adopted in real-world settings, likely due to a lack of trust and transparency. In this paper, we tackle th ...

2023

Bias at a Second Glance: A Deep Dive into Bias for German Educational Peer-Review Data Modeling

Vinitra Swamy, Thiemo Wambsganss

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become increasingly utilized to provide adaptivity in educational applications. However, recent research has highlighted a variety of biases in pre-trained language models. While existing studies investigate bias in di ...

2022

L2D 2021: First International Workshop on Enabling Data-Driven Decisions from Learning on the Web

Mirko Marras

By offering courses and resources, learning platforms on the Web have been attracting lots of participants, and the interactions with these systems have generated a vast amount of learning-related data. Their collection, processing and analysis have promot ...

Association for Computing Machinery2021

Bringing Computational Thinking to non-STEM Undergraduates through an Integrated Notebook Application

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer

Computational thinking courses are no longer exclusive to engineering and computer science students in higher education but have become a requirement in other fields, as well as for students in secondary, primary, and even early childhood education. Comput ...

2020

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This paper tells the story of a decade-long relationship between a teaching team (TT) and an educational developer (EDP). They have been using an experiential learning approach to monitor improvements to teaching Architecture to first year students. We exp ...

ETH2020

A Bayesian Model of Individual Differences and Flexibility in Inductive Reasoning for Categorization of Examples

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Louis Pierre Faucon

Inductive reasoning is an important educational practice but can be difficult for teachers to support in the classroom due to the high level of preparation and classroom time needed to choose the teaching materials that challenge students' current views. I ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Efficacy of a Computer-Based Learning Program in Children With Developmental Dyscalculia. What Influences Individual Responsiveness?

This study presents the evaluation of a computer-based learning program for children with developmental dyscalculia and focuses on factors affecting individual responsiveness. The adaptive training program Calcularis 2.0 has been developed according to cur ...

2020

Mutual Understanding in Educational Human-Robot Collaborations

Alexis David Jacq

Education is an art close to theater. A teacher is taking a role; he works his speeches and his gestures and he plays with the attention of his audience. But it is harder: more than entertaining, a teacher must shape the skills, the knowledge and the motiv ...

EPFL2020

Applying IDC theory to education in the Alps region: A response to Chan et al.’s contribution

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shuqing Teresa Yeo, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jauwairia Nasir, Kevin Gonyop Kim

In this paper, we present a response to the Interest-Driven Creator (IDC) Theory from a European perspective. Specifically, we raise six questions intended to start a dialogue with respect to IDC Theory’s placement in existing learning theories, its adopti ...

2019

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