Toward a Community of Evolving Learners

We discuss the co-evolutionary learning method, applied to human learning, as a means toward a mediated, competitively motivated, educational environment on the Internet. This method was developed in our work with machine learners, where we have been examining environmental characteristics that enable successful and effective learning through “self-play” in games. Critical features include the ability to provide tasks consistently just beyond or just within a learner’s grasp. We carry these observations into the human education arena, using them to help us enable a Community of Evolving Learners (CEL) on the Internet. This paper describes the design of the CEL system.