Reinforcement Learning for Education

I have been studying reinforcement learning since November 2018 when I learned what is was during my time with Insight Data Science. I was an artificial intelligence fellow and I was so fascinated by this idea that you could simulate an environment and get an agent to learn an optimal policy to maximize rewards from that environment. The more I read about RL the more I noticed men were using RL to either train robots or using it to create and play video games. I thought this was such a whack idea! Robots are really cool but reinforcement learning could be used for so much more, I just didn't have any examples of how it could be done yet so I imagined one possibility for using reinforcement learning in an educational environment.