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Towards a General Pre-training Framework for Adaptive Learning in MOOCs

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Adaptive learning aims to stimulate and meet the needs of individual learners, which requires sophisticated system-level coordination of diverse tasks, including modeling learning resources, estimating student states, and making personalized recommendations. Existing deep learning methods have achieved great success over statistical models; however, they still lack generalization for diverse tasks and suffer from insufficient capacity since they are composed of highly-coupled task-specific architectures and rely on small-scale, coarse-grained recommendation scenarios. To realize the idea of general adaptive systems proposed in pedagogical theory, with the emerging pre-training techniques in NLP, we try to conduct a practical exploration on applying pre-training to adaptive learning, to propose a unified framework based on data observation and learning style analysis, properly leveraging heterogeneous learning elements. Through a series of downstream tasks of Learning Recommendation, Learning Resource Evaluation, Knowledge Tracing, and Dropout Prediction, we find that course structures, text, and knowledge are helpful for modeling and inherently coherent to student non-sequential learning behaviors and that indirectly relevant information included in the pre-training foundation can be shared across downstream tasks to facilitate effectiveness. We finally build a simplified systematic application of adaptive learning and reflect on the insights brought back to pedagogy. The source code and dataset will be released.


Printable Flexible Robots for Remote Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of digital fabrication to enable online learning, which remains a challenge for robotics courses. We introduce a teaching methodology that allows students to participate remotely in a hands-on robotics course involving the design and fabrication of robots. Our methodology employs 3D printing techniques with flexible filaments to create innovative soft robots; robots are made from flexible, as opposed to rigid, materials. Students design flexible robotic components such as actuators, sensors, and controllers using CAD software, upload their designs to a remote 3D printing station, monitor the print with a web camera, and inspect the components with lab staff before being mailed for testing and assembly. At the end of the course, students will have iterated through several designs and created fluidically-driven soft robots. Our remote teaching methodology enables educators to utilize 3D printing resources to teach soft robotics and cultivate creativity among students to design novel and innovative robots. Our methodology seeks to democratize robotics engineering by decoupling hands-on learning experiences from expensive equipment in the learning environment.


The Robotic Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing RPA Systems: Taulli, Tom: 9781484257289: Amazon.com: Books

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Tom Taulli has been developing software since the 1980s. In college, he started his first company, which focused on the development of e-learning systems. He created other companies as well, including Hypermart.net Along the way, Tom has written columns for online publications such as BusinessWeek.com, He also writes posts on Artificial Intelligence for Forbes.com


Impact of AI in E-Learning & Use Cases.

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And it takes way too many hours to create an hour's worth of this kind of training material. According to a LinkedIn Learning research, today's workforce (which consists primarily of millennials and Gen Z) prefers to self-manage their learning experiences. Applying Artificial Intelligence to corporate training and eLearning courses specifically solves many of these challenges. Businesses are becoming more and more aware of the possibility of adopting AI for learning and development. In fact, 37 percent of businesses, or a staggering 270 percent growth over the previous four years, had used some kind of AI, according to the 2019 Gartner CIO Survey.


Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Machine Learning Engineer

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What are best practices for implementing machine learning on Google Cloud? What is Vertex AI and how can you use the platform to quickly build, train, and deploy AutoML machine learning models without writing a single line of code? What is machine learning, and what kinds of problems can it solve? Google thinks about machine learning slightly differently: it's about providing a unified platform for managed datasets, a feature store, a way to build, train, and deploy machine learning models without writing a single line of code, providing the ability to label data, create Workbench notebooks using frameworks such as TensorFlow, SciKit Learn, Pytorch, R, and others. Our Vertex AI Platform also includes the ability to train custom models, build component pipelines, and perform both online and batch predictions.


[100%OFF] The Data Science Course 2022: Complete Data Science Bootcamp

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Udemy is the biggest website in the world that offer courses in many categories, all the skills that you would be looking for are offered in Udemy, including languages, design, marketing and a lot of other categories, so when you ever want to buy a courses and pay for a new skills, Udemy would be the best forum for you. You can find payment courses, 100 free courses and coupons also, more than 12 categories are offered, and that what makes sure you will find the domain and the skill you are looking for. Our duty is to search for 100 off courses and free coupons. Data scientist is one of the best suited professions to thrive this century. It is digital, programming-oriented, and analytical.



Prediction of Dilatory Behavior in eLearning: A Comparison of Multiple Machine Learning Models

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Procrastination, the irrational delay of tasks, is a common occurrence in online learning. Potential negative consequences include higher risk of drop-outs, increased stress, and reduced mood. Due to the rise of learning management systems and learning analytics, indicators of such behavior can be detected, enabling predictions of future procrastination and other dilatory behavior. However, research focusing on such predictions is scarce. Moreover, studies involving different types of predictors and comparisons between the predictive performance of various methods are virtually non-existent. In this study, we aim to fill these research gaps by analyzing the performance of multiple machine learning algorithms when predicting the delayed or timely submission of online assignments in a higher education setting with two categories of predictors: subjective, questionnaire-based variables and objective, log-data based indicators extracted from a learning management system. The results show that models with objective predictors consistently outperform models with subjective predictors, and a combination of both variable types perform slightly better. For each of these three options, a different approach prevailed (Gradient Boosting Machines for the subjective, Bayesian multilevel models for the objective, and Random Forest for the combined predictors). We conclude that careful attention should be paid to the selection of predictors and algorithms before implementing such models in learning management systems.


Andrew Ng: AI specialist and technology entrepreneur

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British-born Andrew Ng has had a rich career in the technology industry as Co-Founder and Head of Google Brain, former Chief Scientist at Baidu and Co-Founder of Coursera. At Baidu, Ng built the company's artificial intelligence (AI) sector into a team of several people. In an interview with Lex Fridman, Ng shared where his passion for the industry started: " Growing up in Hong Kong and Singapore, I started learning to code when I was five or six years old. At that time I was learning the BASIC programming language and they would take these folks and they'll tell you type this program into your computer." "So I typed out programs on my computer and as the result of all the typing, I would get to play these very simple, shoot them up games that I had implemented on my little computer. So I thought it was fascinating as a young kid that I could write this code. I was really just copying code from a book into my computer to then play these cool little video games. Another moment for me was when I was a teenager and my father was a doctor was reading about expert systems and about neural networks. So he got me to read some of these books and I thought it was really cool that you could write a computer that started to exhibit intelligence." he continued.


Introduction to Machine Learning: Supervised Learning

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In this course, you'll be learning various supervised ML algorithms and prediction tasks applied to different data. You'll learn when to use which model and why, and how to improve the model performances. We will cover models such as linear and logistic regression, KNN, Decision trees and ensembling methods such as Random Forest and Boosting, kernel methods such as SVM. Prior coding or scripting knowledge is required. We will be utilizing Python extensively throughout the course.