Reinforcement Learning for Education: Opportunities and Challenges

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08828v1
• Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 21:27:45 GMT
• Title: Reinforcement Learning for Education: Opportunities and Challenges
• Abstract summary: This survey article has grown out of the RL4ED workshop organized by the authors at the Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2021 conference. We organized this workshop as part of a community-building effort to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the broad areas of reinforcement learning (RL) and education (ED) This article aims to provide an overview of the workshop activities and summarize the main research directions in the area of RL for ED.
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• Abstract: This survey article has grown out of the RL4ED workshop organized by the authors at the Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2021 conference. We organized this workshop as part of a community-building effort to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the broad areas of reinforcement learning (RL) and education (ED). This article aims to provide an overview of the workshop activities and summarize the main research directions in the area of RL for ED.

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