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Personalized Education in the AI Era: What to Expect Next?

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The objective of personalized learning is to design an effective knowledge acquisition track that matches the learner's strengths and bypasses her weaknesses to ultimately meet her desired goal. This concept emerged several years ago and is being adopted by a rapidly-growing number of educational institutions around the globe. In recent years, the boost of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), together with the advances in big data analysis, has unfolded novel perspectives to enhance personalized education in numerous dimensions. By taking advantage of AI/ML methods, the educational platform precisely acquires the student's characteristics. This is done, in part, by observing the past experiences as well as analyzing the available big data through exploring the learners' features and similarities. It can, for example, recommend the most appropriate content among numerous accessible ones, advise a well-designed long-term curriculum, connect appropriate learners by suggestion, accurate performance evaluation, and the like. Still, several aspects of AI-based personalized education remain unexplored. These include, among others, compensating for the adverse effects of the absence of peers, creating and maintaining motivations for learning, increasing diversity, removing the biases induced by the data and algorithms, and the like. In this paper, while providing a brief review of state-of-the-art research, we investigate the challenges of AI/ML-based personalized education and discuss potential solutions.


Machine Learning with ML.Net for Absolute Beginners

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Hey, My name is Nilay Mehta! I am an experienced .Net developer, having the Microsoft certificate of Programming with C#.Net. I have a Master of Computer Applications and Bachelor of Computer Application degrees. I've worked with a range of development tools from PHP, C#, ASP.NET, and ASP.Net core. I am a passionate software engineer who loves learning new technologies, and from the past 3 years, I'm enjoying sharing that knowledge through blogs and courses.


Classification of Pedagogical content using conventional machine learning and deep learning model

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Billions of users create a large amount of data every day, which in a sense comes from various types of sources. This data is in most cases unorganized and unclassified and is presented in various formats such as text, video, audio, or images. Processing and analyzing this data is a major challenge that we face every day. The problem of unstructured and unorganized text dates back to ancient times, but Text Classification as a discipline first appeared in the early 60s, where 30 years later the interest in various spheres for it increased [1], and began to be applied in various types of domains and applications such as for movie review [2], document classification [3], ecommerce [4], social media [5], online courses [6, 7], etc. As interest has grown more in the upcoming years, the uses start solving the problems with higher accurate results in more flexible ways. Knowledge Engineering (KE) was one of the applications of text classification in the late 80s, where the process took place by manually defining rules based on expert knowledge in terms of categorization of the document for a particular category [1]. After this time, there was a great wave of use of various modern and advanced methods for text classification, which all improved this discipline and made it more interesting for scientists and researchers, more specifically the use of machine learning techniques. These techniques bring a lot of advantages, as they are now in very large numbers, where they provide solutions to almost every problem we may encounter. The need for education and learning dates back to ancient times, where people are constantly improving and trying to gain as much knowledge as possible.


Attention Based Video Summaries of Live Online Zoom Classes

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper describes a system developed to help University students get more from their online lectures, tutorials, laboratory and other live sessions. We do this by logging their attention levels on their laptops during live Zoom sessions and providing them with personalised video summaries of those live sessions. Using facial attention analysis software we create personalised video summaries composed of just the parts where a student's attention was below some threshold. We can also factor in other criteria into video summary generation such as parts where the student was not paying attention while others in the class were, and parts of the video that other students have replayed extensively which a given student has not. Attention and usage based video summaries of live classes are a form of personalised content, they are educational video segments recommended to highlight important parts of live sessions, useful in both topic understanding and in exam preparation. The system also allows a Professor to review the aggregated attention levels of those in a class who attended a live session and logged their attention levels. This allows her to see which parts of the live activity students were paying most, and least, attention to. The Help-Me-Watch system is deployed and in use at our University in a way that protects student's personal data, operating in a GDPR-compliant way.


Educational Content Linking for Enhancing Learning Need Remediation in MOOCs

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Since its introduction in 2011, there have been over 4000 MOOCs on various subjects on the Web, serving over 35 million learners. MOOCs have shown the ability to democratize knowledge dissemination and bring the best education in the world to every learner. However, the disparate distances between participants, the size of the learner population, and the heterogeneity of the learners' backgrounds make it extremely difficult for instructors to interact with the learners in a timely manner, which adversely affects learning experience. To address the challenges, in this thesis, we propose a framework: educational content linking. By linking and organizing pieces of learning content scattered in various course materials into an easily accessible structure, we hypothesize that this framework can provide learners guidance and improve content navigation. Since most instruction and knowledge acquisition in MOOCs takes place when learners are surveying course materials, better content navigation may help learners find supporting information to resolve their confusion and thus improve learning outcome and experience. To support our conjecture, we present end-to-end studies to investigate our framework around two research questions: 1) can manually generated linking improve learning? 2) can learning content be generated with machine learning methods? For studying the first question, we built an interface that present learning materials and visualize the linking among them simultaneously. We found the interface enables users to search for desired course materials more efficiently, and retain more concepts more readily. For the second question, we propose an automatic content linking algorithm based on conditional random fields. We demonstrate that automatically generated linking can still lead to better learning, although the magnitude of the improvement over the unlinked interface is smaller.


Machine Learning Towards Intelligent Systems: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The emergence and continued reliance on the Internet and related technologies has resulted in the generation of large amounts of data that can be made available for analyses. However, humans do not possess the cognitive capabilities to understand such large amounts of data. Machine learning (ML) provides a mechanism for humans to process large amounts of data, gain insights about the behavior of the data, and make more informed decision based on the resulting analysis. ML has applications in various fields. This review focuses on some of the fields and applications such as education, healthcare, network security, banking and finance, and social media. Within these fields, there are multiple unique challenges that exist. However, ML can provide solutions to these challenges, as well as create further research opportunities. Accordingly, this work surveys some of the challenges facing the aforementioned fields and presents some of the previous literature works that tackled them. Moreover, it suggests several research opportunities that benefit from the use of ML to address these challenges.


Top Data Science Education Initiatives By Institutions In 2020

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While normal education suffered a standstill in 2020, there were a lot of online courses and programs that were initiated by some of the most prestigious institutions as well as big tech giants so that the process of learning and skill development doesn't suffer. As the trend has been for a few years now, some of the most interesting initiatives were seen in the field of data science. In this article, we have listed some of the prominent data science education programs and initiatives in 2020. Microsoft, in collaboration with Netflix, has launched three new learning modules on beginners concepts in data science, along with machine learning and artificial intelligence. The design of these courses is inspired by the Netflix original film -- 'Over The Moon,' where a young girl Fei Fei, who builds a rocket to the moon, embarks on a mission to prove the existence of Moon Goddess.


Download Udemy Courses For Free

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Officially created in collaboration with the Google Flutter team. What you'll learn Build beautiful, fast, and native-quality apps with Flutter … What you'll be learning This tutorial uses an older version of Symfony… but since it's a JavaScript tutorial, the concepts … Master Linear Algebra What you'll learn Fundamentals … Online guide on how to learn GAMS like a Pro.


NASSCOM Offers Free Online Courses on Artificial Intelligence on FutureSkills Prime Platform: Check Details

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NASSCOM, at present, is offering several free online courses on artificial intelligence on its newly launched FutureSkills Prime Platform. The digital skilling platform was launched in association with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to drive a national skilling ecosystem for digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, data analytics, and the Internet of Things among others.


Introduction to Machine Learning

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This course introduces principles, algorithms, and applications of machine learning from the point of view of modeling and prediction. It includes formulation of learning problems and concepts of representation, over-fitting, and generalization. These concepts are exercised in supervised learning and reinforcement learning, with applications to images and to temporal sequences. Learn how to perform supervised and reinforcement learning, with images and temporal sequences. This course includes lectures, lecture notes, exercises, labs, and homework problems.