Learning Management
An Application of Online Learning to Spacecraft Memory Dump Optimization
Cesari, Tommaso, Pergoli, Jonathan, Maestrini, Michele, Di Lizia, Pierluigi
With the fast-growing number of satellites orbiting Earth, the Space Operations field has become a prominent and thriving sector. As a consequence, the complexity of planning satellite operations is constantly increasing: Ground Stations have to handle communication with multiple satellites simultaneously while frequently engaged in Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) activities; Satellite Operators need to perform routine tasks and promptly react to contingencies while checking the status of the incoming and disseminated satellite's products. These actions are costly, require time, and are remarkably prone to human errors. Despite this, Satellite Operators still carry out many of these duties by relying on their technical expertise rather than leveraging modern machine learning tools. On the other hand, computers, hardware, and flight software are becoming more sophisticated with each passing day.
Setting a new bar for online higher education
The education sector was among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools across the globe were forced to shutter their campuses in the spring of 2020 and rapidly shift to online instruction. For many higher education institutions, this meant delivering standard courses and the "traditional" classroom experience through videoconferencing and various connectivity tools. The approach worked to support students through a period of acute crisis but stands in contrast to the offerings of online education pioneers. These institutions use AI and advanced analytics to provide personalized learning and on-demand student support, and to accommodate student preferences for varying digital formats.
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Personalized Rehabilitation Robotics based on Online Learning Control
Tesfazgi, Samuel, Lederer, Armin, Kunz, Johannes F., Ordóñez-Conejo, Alejandro J., Hirche, Sandra
The use of rehabilitation robotics in clinical applications gains increasing importance, due to therapeutic benefits and the ability to alleviate labor-intensive works. However, their practical utility is dependent on the deployment of appropriate control algorithms, which adapt the level of task-assistance according to each individual patient's need. Generally, the required personalization is achieved through manual tuning by clinicians, which is cumbersome and error-prone. In this work we propose a novel online learning control architecture, which is able to personalize the control force at run time to each individual user. To this end, we deploy Gaussian process-based online learning with previously unseen prediction and update rates. Finally, we evaluate our method in an experimental user study, where the learning controller is shown to provide personalized control, while also obtaining safe interaction forces.
Lost in Translation: Reimagining the Machine Learning Life Cycle in Education
Liu, Lydia T., Wang, Serena, Britton, Tolani, Abebe, Rediet
Machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly prevalent in education, from their use in predicting student dropout, to assisting in university admissions, and facilitating the rise of MOOCs. Given the rapid growth of these novel uses, there is a pressing need to investigate how ML techniques support long-standing education principles and goals. In this work, we shed light on this complex landscape drawing on qualitative insights from interviews with education experts. These interviews comprise in-depth evaluations of ML for education (ML4Ed) papers published in preeminent applied ML conferences over the past decade. Our central research goal is to critically examine how the stated or implied education and societal objectives of these papers are aligned with the ML problems they tackle. That is, to what extent does the technical problem formulation, objectives, approach, and interpretation of results align with the education problem at hand. We find that a cross-disciplinary gap exists and is particularly salient in two parts of the ML life cycle: the formulation of an ML problem from education goals and the translation of predictions to interventions. We use these insights to propose an extended ML life cycle, which may also apply to the use of ML in other domains. Our work joins a growing number of meta-analytical studies across education and ML research, as well as critical analyses of the societal impact of ML. Specifically, it fills a gap between the prevailing technical understanding of machine learning and the perspective of education researchers working with students and in policy.
MonaCoBERT: Monotonic attention based ConvBERT for Knowledge Tracing
Lee, Unggi, Park, Yonghyun, Kim, Yujin, Choi, Seongyune, Kim, Hyeoncheol
Knowledge tracing (KT) is a field of study that predicts the future performance of students based on prior performance datasets collected from educational applications such as intelligent tutoring systems, learning management systems, and online courses. Some previous studies on KT have concentrated only on the interpretability of the model, whereas others have focused on enhancing the performance. Models that consider both interpretability and the performance improvement have been insufficient. Moreover, models that focus on performance improvements have not shown an overwhelming performance compared with existing models. In this study, we propose MonaCoBERT, which achieves the best performance on most benchmark datasets and has significant interpretability. MonaCoBERT uses a BERT-based architecture with monotonic convolutional multihead attention, which reflects forgetting behavior of the students and increases the representation power of the model. We can also increase the performance and interpretability using a classical test-theory-based (CTT-based) embedding strategy that considers the difficulty of the question. To determine why MonaCoBERT achieved the best performance and interpret the results quantitatively, we conducted ablation studies and additional analyses using Grad-CAM, UMAP, and various visualization techniques. The analysis results demonstrate that both attention components complement one another and that CTT-based embedding represents information on both global and local difficulties. We also demonstrate that our model represents the relationship between concepts.
Understanding Self-Directed Learning in an Online Laboratory
An, Sungeun, Rugaber, Spencer, Hammock, Jennifer, Goel, Ashok K.
We described a study on the use of an online laboratory for self-directed learning by constructing and simulating conceptual models of ecological systems. In this study, we could observe only the modeling behaviors and outcomes; the learning goals and outcomes were unknown. We used machine learning techniques to analyze the modeling behaviors of 315 learners and 822 conceptual models they generated. We derive three main conclusions from the results. First, learners manifest three types of modeling behaviors: observation (simulation focused), construction (construction focused), and full exploration (model construction, evaluation and revision). Second, while observation was the most common behavior among all learners, construction without evaluation was more common for less engaged learners and full exploration occurred mostly for more engaged learners. Third, learners who explored the full cycle of model construction, evaluation and revision generated models of higher quality. These modeling behaviors provide insights into self-directed learning at large.
Artificial Intelligence-Based Analytics for Impacts of COVID-19 and Online Learning on College Students' Mental Health
Rezapour, Mostafa, Elmshaeuser, Scott K.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), first emerged in Wuhan, China late in December 2019. Not long after, the virus spread worldwide and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. This caused many changes around the world and in the United States, including an educational shift towards online learning. In this paper, we seek to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic and increase in online learning impact college students' emotional wellbeing. We use several machine learning and statistical models to analyze data collected by the Faculty of Public Administration at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in conjunction with an international consortium of universities, other higher education institutions, and students' associations. Our results indicate that features related to students' academic life have the largest impact on their emotional wellbeing. Other important factors include students' satisfaction with their university's and government's handling of the pandemic as well as students' financial security.
Interviewing AI
As you may know, I've been playing around with AI lately. While these are humorous and can sometimes show the model's strengths and weaknesses, I felt the realm of pre-pubescent humor had had its time. I instead wanted to see if I could ask the AI questions and have a conversation-style interaction much like this old program I used to mess around with back in the day called Eliza (example in link). It was supposed to be kind of a therapist and you could ask questions and it would respond. It was super basic but it felt like an early AI to me. Even if it was limited in responses, it was kind of fun to use, sometimes to humorous effect.