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Imitation Learning in Discounted Linear MDPs without exploration assumptions

Volkan Cevher, Luca Viano, Efstratios Panteleimon Skoulakis

We present a new algorithm for imitation learning in infinite horizon linear MDPs dubbed ILARL which greatly improves the bound on the number of trajectories that the learner needs to sample from the environment. In particular, we re- move exploration assu ...

2024

GELEX: Generative AI-Hybrid System for Example-Based Learning

Aybars Yazici, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Jibril Albachir Frej

Traditional example-based learning methods are often limited by static, expert-created content. Hence, they face challenges in scalability, engagement, and effectiveness, as some learners might struggle to relate to the examples or find them relevant. To a ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

Evaluation of teachers’ orchestration tools usage in robotic classrooms

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Aditi Kothiyal, Sina Shahmoradi

Teachers’ self-efficacy in managing classrooms is an important consideration when it comes to bringing educational robots to classrooms. Orchestration tools support teachers by providing awareness indicators of students’ progress as well as levers to contr ...

2023

Finding Paths for Explainable MOOC Recommendation: A Learner Perspective

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Jibril Albachir Frej, Tatjana Nazaretsky

The increasing availability of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has created a necessity for personalized course recommendation systems. These systems often combine neural networks with Knowledge Graphs (KGs) to achieve richer representations of learners ...

2023

Simulated Learners in Educational Technology: A Systematic Literature Review and a Turing-like Test

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober

Simulation is a powerful approach that plays a significant role in science and technology. Computational models that simulate learner interactions and data hold great promise for educational technology as well. Amongst others, simulated learners can be use ...

SPRINGER2023

Revisiting adversarial training for the worst-performing class

Volkan Cevher, Grigorios Chrysos, Thomas Michaelsen Pethick

Despite progress in adversarial training (AT), there is a substantial gap between the topperforming and worst-performing classes in many datasets. For example, on CIFAR10, the accuracies for the best and worst classes are 74% and 23%, respectively. We argu ...

Journal of Machine Learning Research Inc.2023

OSSCAR, an open platform for collaborative development of computational tools for education in science

Giovanni Pizzi, Sara Bonella, Dou Du

In this paper we present the Open Software Services for Classrooms and Research (OSSCAR) platform. OSSCAR provides an open collaborative environment to develop and access educational resources in the form of web applications, for which various deployment m ...

ELSEVIER2023

High entropy molybdate-derived FeOOH catalyzes oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media

Lichen Bai, Seunghwa Lee

High-entropy materials are a new class of materials that have lately been developed and applied to a variety of potential fields. Here we present that electrochemical activation facilitates the application of high-entropy molybdates (HEMo) as oxygen evolut ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Conversational Agents in Digital Education

Juan Carlos Farah

The presence of conversational agents (or chatbots) in educational contexts has been steadily increasing over the past few years. Recent surveys have shown widespread interest in the use of chatbots in education, both for research and practice. Although th ...

EPFL2023

A Blueprint for Integrating Task-Oriented Conversational Agents in Education

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the use of chatbots for educational purposes. Nevertheless, the chatbot technologies and architectures that are often applied to educational contexts are not necessarily designed for such contexts. Whi ...

2022

Impersonating Chatbots in a Code Review Exercise to Teach Software Engineering Best Practices

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Basile Maurice Pierre Spaenlehauer

Over the past decade, the use of chatbots for educational purposes has gained considerable traction. A similar trend has been observed in social coding platforms, where automated agents support software developers with tasks such as performing code reviews ...

IEEE2022

Toward Code Review Notebooks

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Basile Maurice Pierre Spaenlehauer

Peer code review has proven to be a valuable tool in software engineering. However, integrating code reviews into educational contexts is particularly challenging due to the complexity of both the process and popular code review tools. We propose to addres ...

IEEE2022

Educational Technologies for Vocational Education. Experiences as Digital Clay

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis

This book summarises 15 years of research (2007-2021) on the exploitation of digital technologies for VET. In other words, our activities started the same year as the first iPhone was launched! Four research groups formed the leading house on the topic, na ...

EPFL2022

Emergency adaptation to distance learning: no magic bullet, but where there’s a will, there’s a way

Caroline Pulfrey

Whilst, in many countries, the sudden enforced transfer to large-scale distance learning in state schools as a result of COVID_19 lockdown measures caused turmoil, it also provided an unprecedented opportunity to understand more about key factors associate ...

2022

Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

As more educational activities are conducted online, the need for interactive applications (apps) that can effectively support educators in their practice is increasing. These apps are often created by web developers or by researchers, educators, and even ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València2022

The TACS Model: Understanding Primary School Teachers’ Adoption of Computer Science Pedagogical Content

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

Context With the introduction of computer science (CS) into curricula worldwide, teachers’ adoption of CS-pedagogical content is essential to ensure the long-term success of reform initiatives. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs play a key ...

2022

Use of space analog missions as an educational tool in primary schools

Volker Gass

Space exploration is a field that inspires a wide range of people, from children to university students, including the general public. With a return to the Moon planned for 2024 and the rapid expansion of the private industry, educating the next generation ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

How to support teachers to carry out educational robotics activities in school? The case of Roteco, the Swiss robotic teacher community

Melissa Anne Skweres, Sophia Reyes Mury

The development of 21st-century transversal competences such as communication, cooperation, and creativity as well as computational thinking and programming may be aided through educational robotics (ER). Different countries have inserted ER in their schoo ...

2022

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

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, 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

Designing Tools and Activities for Educational Robotics in Online Learning

Christian Giang, Evgeniia Bonnet

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent school closures created several challenges for teachers and students. From one day to the next, teachers had to rethink their educational activities and move to remote learning. Especially with regard to educational ...

IGI Global2021