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Collaborative Learning Platform Using Learning Optimized Algorithms

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Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications (OL2A 2021)

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Aware that the lack of mathematical knowledge and skills is a major problem for the development of a modern, inclusive and informed society, the MathE partnership has developed a tool that is aimed at bridging the gap that moves students away from courses that rely on a mathematical core. The MathE collaborative learning platform offers higher education students a package of scientific and pedagogical resources that allow them to be active agents in their learning pathway, by self-managing their study. The MathE platform is currently being used by a significant number of users, from all over the world, as a tool to support and engage students, ensuring new and creative ways to encourage them to improve their mathematical skills and therefore increasing their confidence and capacities. In order to enhance this platform, a visual representation of the performance of the students is already implemented, based on the recorded performance historic data for each student. This paper contains a literature review about the implementation of data mining techniques in education, followed by a description of the features of the MathE learning system and suggestions of data parameters to support the improvement of the students’ performance. Future work includes the application of optimization and learning algorithms so that the MathE platform will have a dynamical structure and act as a virtual tutor for the users.

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This work has been supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UIDB/05757/2020 and Erasmus+ Programme project n. 2018-1-PT01-KA203-047361.

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Azevedo, B.F., Amoura, Y., Kantayeva, G., Pacheco, M.F., Pereira, A.I., Fernandes, F.P. (2021). Collaborative Learning Platform Using Learning Optimized Algorithms. In: Pereira, A.I., et al. Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications. OL2A 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1488. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91885-9_52

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