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One Code to Predict Them All: Universal Encoding for Inquiry Modeling

Valentine Marie Delevaux, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Jade Maï L Cock

Interactive simulations enhance science education and foster inquiry skills, but their open-ended nature can be cognitively overloading. While adaptive systems offer timely support, research on predicting conceptual understanding in these environments is l ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Enhancing Procedural Writing Through Personalized Example Retrieval: A Case Study on Cooking Recipes

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Antoine Bosselut, Thiemo Wambsganss, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Jibril Albachir Frej, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Luca Mouchel, Tatjana Nazaretsky

Writing high-quality procedural texts is a challenging task for many learners. While example-based learning has shown promise as a feedback approach, a limitation arises when all learners receive the same content without considering their individual input ...

2024

Evolution in European and Israeli school curricula - a comparative analysis

Joelyn de Lima

The contribution of school curricula to public understanding and acceptance of evolution is still mostly unknown, due to the scarcity of studies that compare the learning goals present in different curricula. To overcome this lack of data we analysed 19 sc ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2024

FROM GROUP WORK TO TEAM WORK: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN THREE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

Isabelle Jeanne Lydie Lermigeaux-Sarrade

Addressing the complex challenges of sustainability demands for good teamwork abilities for future technicians and engineers. In our three institutions we adopted project-based learning to facilitate the development of these skills – but is this enough? Si ...

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

Protected Attributes Tell Us Who, Behavior Tells Us How: A Comparison of Demographic and Behavioral Oversampling for Fair Student Success Modeling

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober

Algorithms deployed in education can shape the learning experience and success of a student. It is therefore important to understand whether and how such algorithms might create inequalities or amplify existing biases. In this paper, we analyze the fairnes ...

2022

An End-to-End Data Pipeline for Managing Learning Analytics

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Joana Catarina Soares Machado

Despite the importance of learning analytics in digital education, there is limited support for researchers in education to generate, access, and share experimental data while complying with ethical and privacy legislation. We propose a set of related tool ...

2021

Students' learning strategies, motivation and project-management skills during interdisciplinary projects in Covid times

Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Helena Kovacs, Marc Lafuente Martinez, Julien Delisle

In this study, we investigated an interdisciplinary project-based learning program. Students were confronted with interdisciplinary challenges in the form of complex and authentic problems, like building a racing car or making a mobile laboratory for genet ...

Technische Universität Berlin2021

Combining the Knowledge Appropriation Model and epistemic networks to understand co-creation and adoption of learning designs using log data

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Social practices are well-known mediators in the adoption of educational innovations during professional learning, as postulated by the Knowledge Appropriation Model (KAM). However, understanding how teachers adopt new pedagogical approaches at scale is of ...

2020

Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Alberto Piatti

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

Discovery and Temporal Analysis of Latent Study Patterns from MOOC Interaction Sequences

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

Capturing students' behavioral patterns through analysis of sequential interaction logs, is an important task in educational data mining to enable more effective personalized support during the learning process. This study aims at discovery and temporal an ...

2018

FROG: rapid prototyping of collaborative learning scenarios

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

We describe FROG, an integrated environment for authoring and running collaborative learning scenarios, called Orchestration Graphs. We describe the pedagogical background and the technical architecture, and present a case study of a teacher using FROG to ...

2017

Beyond ePortfolios: Creating, Exploiting, and Archiving Activity Traces, Learning Outcomes, and Learning Analytics as Personal Shareable Online Spaces

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Andrii Vozniuk

The concept of an ePortfolio was introduced in 1999 as an electronic learning record and further developed to overcome the limitation of learning management systems lacking persistent storage for learning artifacts. Nowadays, educational platforms have evo ...

IEEE2017

Gaze Analysis methods for Learning Analytics

Kshitij Sharma

Eye-tracking had been shown to be predictive of expertise, task-based success, task-difficulty, and the strategies involved in problem solving, both in the individual and collaborative settings. In learning analytics, eye-tracking could be used as a powerf ...

EPFL2015

SVM Active Learning Approach for Image Classification Using Spatial Information

Devis Tuia

In the last few years, active learning has been gaining growing interest in the remote sensing community in optimizing the process of training sample collection for supervised image classification. Current strategies formulate the active learning problem i ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Learning Analytics Dashboard Applications

Sten Govaerts

This article introduces learning analytics dashboards that visualize learning traces for learners and teachers. We present a conceptual framework that helps to analyze learning analytics applications for these kinds of users. We then present our own work i ...

Sage Publications Inc2013

Modèle, architecture et outils pour la modélisation et le déploiement des environnements d'apprentissage multimédias actifs

This work proposes a new way to design and deploy active multimedia learning environments by non-IT specialists. It aims at defining a model, an architecture and appropriate tools which allow producing learning environments by composing existing learning c ...

EPFL2007