Computers and Exploratory Learning: Setting the Scene

1995 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea A. diSessa ◽  
Celia Hoyles ◽  
Richard Noss ◽  
Laurie Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Learning

scholarly journals Plan Recognition for Exploratory Learning Environments Using Interleaved Temporal Search

AI Magazine ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oriel Uzan ◽  
Reuth Dekel ◽  
Or Seri ◽  
Ya’akov (Kobi) Gal
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Educational Software ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Recognition Algorithm ◽  
Plan Recognition ◽  
Exploratory Learning ◽  
Domain Expert ◽  
Teaching Chemistry ◽  
Exploratory Learning Environments ◽  
New Algorithms

This article presents new algorithms for inferring users’ activities in a class of flexible and open-ended educational software called exploratory learning environments (ELE). Such settings provide a rich educational environment for students, but challenge teachers to keep track of students’ progress and to assess their performance. This article presents techniques for recognizing students activities in ELEs and visualizing these activities to students. It describes a new plan recognition algorithm that takes into account repetition and interleaving of activities. This algorithm was evaluated empirically using two ELEs for teaching chemistry and statistics used by thousands of students in several countries. It was able to outperform the state-of-the-art plan recognition algorithms when compared to a gold-standard that was obtained by a domain-expert. We also show that visualizing students’ plans improves their performance on new problems when compared to an alternative visualization that consists of a step-by-step list of actions.

scholarly journals E-Book as a Platform for Exploratory Learning Interactions

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Lukito Edi Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Exploratory Learning ◽  
Overhead Cost ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Reactive Mechanism

E-books are widely used as an important resource in learning. The most common way to use e-books is to incorporate them while a learning interaction is in progress. However, some learning styles are better supported inversely: e-books take the lead and are used to initiate and bind learning communications to the topics in focus. Unfortunately, existing e-book formats cannot accommodate this need effectively, potentially causing learning interactions to lose grip on the intended discussion framework. Inability to bind a conversation with the materials in the first place can also introduce overhead cost to the readers due to the burden of bringing the materials into the discussion. In this work, we add the capability of e-books to serve as an interaction platform. An e-book is considered as a collection of objects indicating topics of learning discussions. Asynchronous conversation is anchored to one or more topic, and defined by a context that specifies participants and communications among them. Communication is modeled after a reactive mechanism by using event-action pairs. The proposed framework also accommodates dynamics within discussions, as well as structured discussions commonly found in many learning environments.

scholarly journals Questioning supports effective transmission of knowledge and increased exploratory learning in pre-kindergarten children

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. e12696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Yu ◽  
Asheley R. Landrum ◽  
Elizabeth Bonawitz ◽  
Patrick Shafto
Keyword(s):  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Exploratory Learning ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Effective Transmission

Exploratory Learning

2008 ◽  
pp. 1380-1380
Author(s):  
James C. Dunford ◽  
Louis A. Somma ◽  
David Serrano ◽  
C. Roxanne Rutledge ◽  
John L. Capinera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Learning
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