Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday Apr. 11, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07* ------------------------------ Personalised Open Education for the Masses (POEM) <[email protected]>Pierre Collet<http://icube-bfo.unistra.fr/en/index.php/Pierre_Collet> (Strasbourg University) Abstract: Since 2 years ago, millions of students enrolled in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) proposed by the most renowned universities (mooc-list.com). To attend a course or seminar, students only need a computer and internet connection. They can do course exercises and address difficult problems together with other distance learners. Right now 2 types of MOOCs are identified: xMOOCs (that are standard University courses available as open access videos with periodical exams at predefined dates) and cMOOCs (cooperative contents that are not organised as courses). POEMs aim at implementing 4P education, in order to provide personalised education for the mass. The aims of a 4P education are : - *Participative education*: Students particpate through their profile, that can be used to establish optimal pedagogical paths thanks to a man-hill paradigm, but also by augmenting exercises and contents using refined evaluation techniques such as ELO ranking and co-tutoring. - *Predictive education*: The trajectory of a particular student can be compared with other successful trajectories, enabling the system to suggest new courses well adapted to the student, both in terms of contents and difficulty. Predictive education will therefore provide good guidance to students during their studies. - *Preemptive/Preventive education*: The system can avoid future difficulties (especially withdrawals) by analysing the choices of students and suggesting alternative successful paths towards the student's aim. - *Personalized education*: Learning can be seen as a journey within a complex system made of thousands of independent small pedagogical items, guided by a 3D knowledge map from a starting location (the prior knowledge) to a destination (the learning goals) adapted to each and everyone: a journey to learn together, with drills to practice the new concepts that need to be understood and learnt. We present the POEM implemented within the educational ecosystem of the Strasbourg Complex Systems Digital Campus, that incorporates Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) techniques adapted to humans (man-hill paradigm) in order to guide students through many e-learning items. ELO rating (used in chess competitions) is used to rate both the students and the e-learning items, refine the model and propose items corresponding to the level of each student. ELO also represents a powerful audit system capable of tracking semantic problems in exercises. The dynamic and emerging content in POEM is designed to promote better access, exploitation and ultimately, generation of knowledge. POEMs will also be used by the universities of Dakar, Normal University of Taiwan, Indian Institution of Technology of Madras in India and by some other universities of the Complex Systems Digital Campus UNESCO UniTwin. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *Apr. 18 * Jeffrey Johnson (room D.1.08!) *Apr. 25 * Safwat Ibrahim *May 2 * Mixel Kiemen (ECCO, GBI) *May 9 * Cliff Joslyn *May 16 * Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich) *Programming the Global Brain - Implications for Computer Science* *May 23 * Shima Beigi *A generic framework for resilience of complex adaptive systems* *May 30* Mehdi Moussaid (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) *Social influence and collective opinion dynamics* *June 13* Alfonso Molina *June 20 * Piet Holbrouck (ECCO) *Problem Solving and Paradigm Shifts* *June 27* Viktoras Veitas & David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) (ECCO,GBI) See also the ECCO/GBI calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ>. You can add this calendar to your calendar application throughhere<https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers<http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
