General intelligence requires open-ended exploratory learning. The principle of compression progress proposes that agents should derive intrinsic reward from maximizing “interestingness”, the first derivative of compression progress over the agent’s history. Schmidhuber posits that such a drive can explain “essential aspects of ... curiosity, creativity, art, science, music, [and] jokes”, imply...

The presentation reviews more than a decade of investigations undertaken to determine what motivates and what discourages faculty participation in distance education. The presenters describe the evidence that faculty extrinsic and intrinsic conditions both influence willingness to participate. The researchers will also compare the findings of this study with three other studies conducted on fac...

We develop a general problem setting for training and testing the ability of agents to gather information efficiently. Specifically, we present a collection of tasks in which success requires searching through a partially-observed environment, for fragments of information which can be pieced together to accomplish various goals. We combine deep architectures with techniques from reinforcement l...

A central tenet of economics is that individuals respond to incentives. For psychologists and sociologists, in contrast, rewards and punishments are often counterproductive, because they undermine “intrinsic motivation”. We reconcile these two views, showing how performance incentives offered by an informed principal (manager, teacher, parent) can adversely impact an agent’s (worker, child) per...

A large portion of previous research on knowledge sharing in virtual community focuses on organization-sponsored professional virtual communities (PVC) while nowadays numerous nonwork-related virtual communities are gaining popularity. This study investigates the phenomenon of knowledge sharing in one popular type of non-work-related virtual community, online question and answering community. A...

Human users form coalitions to solve complex tasks and earn rewards. Examples of such coalition formation can be found in the military, education, and business domains. Multiagent coalition formation techniques cannot be readily used to form human coalitions due to the unique aspects of the human coalition formation problem, e.g., uncertainty in human user behavior and changes in human user beh...

Abstract The growth of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education China over the past two decades has been promoted via implicit and explicit policies that aim to incentivise activities associated with creation English-taught courses programs. This study investigates components such incentivisation schemes. It also explores how are being implemented by policy arbiters, EMI programme d...

The success of the Linux operating system has demonstrated the viability of an alternative form of software development – open source software – that challenges traditional assumptions about software markets. Understanding what drives open source developers to participate in open source projects is crucial for assessing the impact of open source software. This article identifies two broad types...

The following review provides a synthesised summary of self-regulated learning in relation to metacognition, motivation and behaviour. It provides evidence regarding the need for, and benefits of, self-regulated learning. The implications for teachers are also specified in the review. These include the importance of acknowledging the social nature of self-regulated learning and supporting learn...