Nice! When I can focus more on the research aspects of Mnemosyne this will come in handy.
Peter On Monday, January 23, 2012 08:42:46 PM Gwern Branwen wrote: > Highly theoretical and not immediately practical, but perhaps the > mathematicians among us will find it interesting. "Education of a > model student" PDF: > http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/01/13/1109863109.full.pdf > Abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/01/13/1109863109.abstract > > > A dilemma faced by teachers, and increasingly by designers of > > educational software, is the trade-off between teaching new material > > and reviewing what has already been taught. Complicating matters, > > review is useful only if it is neither too soon nor too late. Moreover, > > different students need to review at different rates. We present a > > mathematical model that captures these issues in idealized form. The > > student’s needs are modeled as constraints on the schedule according to > > which educational material and review are spaced over time. Our results > > include algorithms to construct schedules that adhere to various > > spacing constraints, and bounds on the rate at which new material can > > be introduced under these schedules. > From the PDF: > > ...[software] could fit a model to the user and then schedule review in > > a way that is tailored to the model. With such educational software in > > mind, we envision a system in which the software designer can specify a > > schedule for the introduction of new material, together with a schedule > > by which the review of existing material is spaced over time. What we > > find, however, is that the resulting scheduling problems are > > mathematically subtle: Existing techniques do not handle scheduling > > problems with spacing constraints of this type. > _Wired_ coverage: > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/algorithmic-education/ -- Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
