Title
Interactive Unknowns Recommendation in E-Learning Systems
Abstract
The arise of E-learning systems has led to an anytime-anywhere-learning environment for everyone by providing various online courses and tests. However, due to the lack of teacher-student interaction, such ubiquitous learning is generally not as effective as offline classes. In traditional offline courses, teachers facilitate real-time interaction to teach students in accordance with personal aptitude from students' feedback in classes. Without the interruption of instructors, it is difficult for users to be aware of personal unknowns. In this paper, we address an important issue on the exploration of 'user unknowns' from an interactive question-answering process in E-learning systems. A novel interactive learning system, called CagMab, is devised to interactively recommend questions with a round-by-round strategy, which contributes to applications such as a conversational bot for self-evaluation. The flow enables users to discover their weakness and further helps them to progress. In fact, despite its importance, discovering personal unknowns remains a challenging problem in E-learning systems. Even though formulating the problem with the multi-armed bandit framework provides a solution, it often leads to suboptimal results for interactive unknowns recommendation as it simply relies on the contextual features of answered questions. Note that each question is associated with concepts and similar concepts are likely to be linked manually or systematically, which naturally forms the concept graphs. Mining the rich relationships among users, questions and concepts could be potentially helpful in providing better unknowns recommendation. To this end, in this paper, we develop a novel interactive learning framework by borrowing strengths from concept-aware graph embedding for learning user unknowns. Our experimental studies on real data show that the proposed framework can effectively discover user unknowns in an interactive fashion for the recommendation in E-learning systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICDM.2018.00065
2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Unknowns Recommender System,Multi-Armed Bandit,Concept-Aware Graph Embedding,E-learning System
Ubiquitous learning,Informatics,Interactive Learning,Graph,E learning,Computer science,Graph embedding,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Aptitude,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-4786
978-1-5386-9160-1
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shan-Yun Teng153.45
Jundong Li270950.13
Lo Pang-Yun Ting331.40
Kun-Ta Chuang425244.61
Huan Liu512695741.34