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Computer-Aided Personalized Education


   Workshop Report   

November 12-13, 2015

Washington D.C.
Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Woodley Road Northwest, Washington, DC, United States



Event Contact

Ann Drobnis
adrobnis@cra.org
2022662936


Event Type

2015 Visioning Activities, Visioning Activities


Event Category

CCC

Overview

The demand for education in STEM fields is exploding, and universities and colleges are straining to satisfy this demand. In the case of Computer Science, for example, the number of US students enrolled in introductory courses has grown three-fold in the past decade. Recently massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been promoted as a way to ease this strain, but scaling traditional models of teaching to MOOCs poses many of the same challenges observed in the overflowing classrooms, namely, assessment of students’ knowledge and providing meaningful feedback to individual students. This motivates a new agenda for computing research: formalize tasks such as assessment and feedback as computational problems, develop algorithmic tools to solve resulting problems at scale, and incorporate these tools effectively in learning environments.

Automated tutoring has been studied at different times in different communities. Top-down approaches based on formal logical reasoning are rooted in research on formal verification and synthesis. The resulting tools for tasks such as automatic generation of problems, automatic grading, and automatic generation of hints have been developed for problems arising in a number of CS courses such as algorithms, automata theory, compilers, databases, and programming. At the opposite end of the spectrum of automated tutoring technology, bottom-up approaches based on machine learning mine data from learning experiences of students. Emerging applications of this approach range from learning analytics tools for students and instructors to track learning progress to personalized feedback tools that recommend the next best learning activity to a student based on past history.

The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers developing educational tools based on technologies such as logical reasoning and machine learning with researchers in education, human-computer interaction, and psychology to articulate a long-term research agenda. The focus was on college-level courses in computer science, mathematics, and physics. The workshop was expected to foster new collaborations among participants from diverse disciplines, suggest new research directions in computer-aided education, inspire other researchers to work on these problems, and ultimately result in technology for effective and personalized learning.

Agenda

November 12, 2015 (Thursday)

08:00 AM Breakfast | Roosevelt 4
09:00 AM Welcome | Roosevelt 1 & 2
09:15 AM Introductions
10:00 AM AM Break
10:30 AM Panel A and Discussion | Roosevelt 1 & 2

Moderators: Rich Baraniuk and Sumit Gulwani

Panelisits: Mihaela van der Schaar, Jerry Zhu, Zoran Popovic, Sanjit Seshia, Philip Guo, Kathi Fisler

12:00 PM Lunch
01:00 PM Panel B and Discussion | Roosevelt 1 & 2

Moderators: Yasmin Kafai and Jeff Karpicke

Panelists: Carolyn Rose, Danielle McNamara, Andy Butler, Gautam Biswas, Sidney D’Mellow

02:30 PM PM Break
03:00 PM Panel C and Discussion | Roosevelt 1 & 2

Moderators: Rajeev Alur

Panelists: Ken Koedinger, Isaac Chuang, John Mitchell, Beth Simon, Candace Thille, Marti Hearst

04:30 PM Demo and Poster Session | Roosevelt 4 & 5
06:00 PM Dinner | Exhibit Hall A

November 13, 2015 (Friday)

08:00 AM Breakfast | Roosevelt 4
09:00 AM Parallel Working Group Sessions | Roosevelt 3, Roosevelt 5, and Exhibit Hall A
10:00 AM AM Break
10:30 AM Parallel Working Group Sessions | Roosevelt 3, Roosevelt 5, and Exhibit Hall A
12:00 PM Lunch | Roosevelt 4
01:00 PM Reports from Working Group | Roosevelt 1 & 2
02:00 PM PM Break
02:15 PM Planning the Whitepaper and Discussion | Roosevelt 1 & 2
Participants

Participant Lightning Slides

Organizing Committee

Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania
Rich Baraniuk, Rice University
Rastislav Bodik, University of California, Berkeley
Ann Drobnis, Director of the Computing Community Consortium
Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft
Bjoern Hartmann, University of California, Berkeley
Yasmin Kafai, University of Pennsylvania
Jeff Karpicke, Purdue University
Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT
Candace Thille, Stanford University
Moshe Vardi, Rice University
Debra Richardson, University of California, Irvine
Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Harvey Mudd College

 

 

Logistics

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will cover travel expenses for all participants who desire it. The CCC will make hotel reservations at the workshop hotel. Participants will be asked to make their own travel arrangements to get to the workshop, including purchasing airline tickets. Following the symposium, CCC will circulate a reimbursement form that participants will need to complete and submit, along with copies of receipts for amounts exceeding $75.

In general, standard Federal travel policies apply: CCC will reimburse for non-refundable economy airfare on U.S. Flag carriers; and no alcohol will be covered.

For more information, please see the Guidelines for Participant Reimbursements from CCC.

Additional questions about the reimbursement policy should be directed to Ann Drobnis, CCC Director (adrobnis [at] cra.org).

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