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View article: Investigating Active Learning for Concept Prerequisite Learning
Investigating Active Learning for Concept Prerequisite Learning Open
Concept prerequisite learning focuses on machine learning methods for measuring the prerequisite relation among concepts. With the importance of prerequisites for education, it has recently become a promising research direction. A major ob…
View article: Active Learning of Strict Partial Orders: A Case Study on Concept Prerequisite Relations
Active Learning of Strict Partial Orders: A Case Study on Concept Prerequisite Relations Open
Strict partial order is a mathematical structure commonly seen in relational data. One obstacle to extracting such type of relations at scale is the lack of large-scale labels for building effective data-driven solutions. We develop an act…
View article: Distractor Generation for Multiple Choice Questions Using Learning to Rank
Distractor Generation for Multiple Choice Questions Using Learning to Rank Open
We investigate how machine learning models, specifically ranking models, can be used to select useful distractors for multiple choice questions. Our proposed models can learn to select distractors that resemble those in actual exam questio…
View article: Recovering Concept Prerequisite Relations from University Course Dependencies
Recovering Concept Prerequisite Relations from University Course Dependencies Open
Prerequisite relations among concepts play an important role in many educational applications such as intelligent tutoring system and curriculum planning. With the increasing amount of educational data available, automatic discovery of con…
View article: BBookX: Building Online Open Books for Personalized Learning
BBookX: Building Online Open Books for Personalized Learning Open
We demonstrate BBookX, a novel system that auto-matically builds in collaboration with a user online openbooks by searching open educational resources (OER).This system explores the use of retrieval technologies todynamically generate zero…
View article: Analyzing MOOC discussion forum messages to identify cognitive learning information exchanges
Analyzing MOOC discussion forum messages to identify cognitive learning information exchanges Open
While discussion forums in online courses have been studied in the past, no one has proposed a model linking messages in discussion forums to a learning taxonomy, even though forums are widely used as educational tools in online courses. I…