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Generative AI-Enabled Conversational Interaction to Support Self-Directed Learning Experiences in Transversal Computational Thinking

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah, Abdessalam Ouaazki

As computational thinking (CT) becomes increasingly acknowledged as an important skill in education, self-directed learning (SDL) emerges as a key strategy for developing this capability. The advent of generative AI (GenAI) conversational agents has disrup ...

2024

Evolutionary Clustering of Apprentices' Self- Regulated Learning Behavior in Learning Journals

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Christian Giang, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Mirko Marras

Learning journals are increasingly used in vocational education to foster self-regulated learning and reflective learning practices. However, for many apprentices, documenting working experiences is a difficult task. In this paper, we profile apprentices' ...

2022

Equality of Learning Opportunity via Individual Fairness in Personalized Recommendations

Mirko Marras

Online education platforms play an increasingly important role in mediating the success of individuals' careers. Therefore, while building overlying content recommendation services, it becomes essential to guarantee that learners are provided with equal re ...

SPRINGER2022

Social practices in teacher knowledge creation and innovation adoption: a large-scale study in an online instructional design community for inquiry learning

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Social practices are assumed to play an important role in the evolution of new teaching and learning methods. Teachers internalize knowledge developed in their communities through interactions with peers and experts while solving problems or co-creating ma ...

2020

Tracing Teacher Collaborative Learning and Innovation Adoption: a Case Study in an Inquiry Learning Platform

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos

Social processes play an important role in teachers' ongoing professional learning: through interactions with peers and experts to solve problems or co-create materials, teachers internalize knowledge developed in their communities. However, these social p ...

International Society of Learning Sciences2019

Learning Approach to Delineation of Curvilinear Structures in 2D and 3D Images

Agata Justyna Mosinska

Detection of curvilinear structures has long been of interest due to its wide range of applications. Large amounts of imaging data could be readily used in many fields, but it is practically not possible to analyze them manually. Hence, the need for automa ...

EPFL2019

The Multimodal Study of Blended Learning Using Mixed Sources: Dataset and Challenges of the SpeakUp Case

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Social media applications have been proposed as a tool to complement students’ formal learning experiences, often to increase interactivity and participation. However, evidence regarding the benefits and challenges of such applications is still conflicting ...

CEUR2017

An Institutional Personal Learning Environment Enabler

Denis Gillet, Laurent Moccozet

In this paper, we first discuss the concept of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) with respect to higher- education institutions and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). This discussion rapidly confronts us to the place of the PLE and self-directed learn ...

2012

A two years informal learning experience using the Thymio robot

Francesco Mondada, Philippe Rétornaz, Fanny Riedo

Technology is playing an increasing role in our society. Therefore it becomes important to educate the general public, and young generations in particular, about the most common technologies. In this context, robots are excellent education tools, for many ...

Springer2012

Learning to Detect Objects with Minimal Supervision

Karim Ali

Many classes of objects can now be successfully detected with statistical machine learning techniques. Faces, cars and pedestrians, have all been detected with low error rates by learning their appearance in a highly generic manner from extensive training ...

EPFL2012

Personal Learning Environments in a Global Higher Engineering Education Web 2.0 Realm

Denis Gillet

This paper presents investigations on formal and informal requirements for personal learning environments taking into account students’ personal and social learning practices. The potential of global Web 2.0 educational service bundles and informal learnin ...

IEEE2010

The 3A Interaction Model and Relation-Based Recommender System : Adopting Social Media Paradigms in Designing Personal Learning Environments

Sandy Ingram

We live in a rapidly changing digital world marked by technological advances, and fraught with online information constantly growing thanks to the Internet revolution and the online social applications in particular. Formal learning acquired in traditional ...

EPFL2010

The 3A interaction model: towards bridging the gap between formal and informal learning

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Na Li

This paper discusses the adoption of bottom-up social software tools in formal learning environments. This is believed to enhance the learning experience of today’s young generation characterized by being technology savvy and keen on social networking. As ...

IEEE Computer Society2010