Learning to Teach

Learning Automation to Teach Mathematics

One of the recurrent controversies at our Engineering Faculty concerns the orientation of first year basic courses, particularly the subject area of mathematics, considering its role as an essential tool in technological disciplines. In order to provide the basic courses with technological applications, a mathematical engineering seminar was held at the Engineering Faculty of Barcelona. Session...

Learning to Teach Reinforcement Learning Agents

In this article we study the transfer learning model of action advice under a budget. We focus on reinforcement learning teachers providing action advice to heterogeneous students playing the game of Pac-Man under a limited advice budget. First, we examine several critical factors affecting advice quality in this setting, such as the average performance of the teacher, its variance and the impo...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

Learning to Teach and Learning to Learn - Running a Course

Overview The structure of these patterns is similar to the one introduced by Andreas Rueping [6] . The problem section formulates an issue as a question. The forces are the considerations that lead to the solution. The solution answers the question of the problem section. In the discussion section, some examples are presented or drawbacks of the solution are discussed. Some of the patterns have...

Learning to Teach like a Bandit

Designing a good course curriculum is a non-trivial task many teachers have to deal with on a regular basis. There are multiple learning methodologies available, but some of the basics are common; thus, one of the important steps is to identify key concepts and knowledge or skills prerequisites for mastering them. If this can be done properly, a teacher acting as a course designer can think how...