Publications de Louis Pierre Faucon

Learning Analytics for Adaptive and Self-Improving Learning Environments for Inductive Teaching

The emergence of digital technology is changing education in many ways. A particularly interesting aspect of this transformation is the development of learning environments that can automatically adapt to individual students and can collect data in order t ...

EPFL2021

Real-Time Prediction of Students' Activity Progress and Completion Rates

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Stian Haklev, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

In classrooms, some transitions between activities impose (quasi-)synchronicity, meaning there is a need for learners to move between activities at the same time. To make real-time decisions about when to move to the next activity, teachers need to be able ...

SOC LEARNING ANALYTICS RESEARCH-SOLAR2020

A Bayesian Model of Individual Differences and Flexibility in Inductive Reasoning for Categorization of Examples

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

Inductive reasoning is an important educational practice but can be difficult for teachers to support in the classroom due to the high level of preparation and classroom time needed to choose the teaching materials that challenge students' current views. I ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Transferring interactive activities in large lectures from face-to-face to online settings

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

Purpose Within higher education, there was an abrupt shift from face-to-face to online lecturing with the introduction of social distancing measures in light of a global pandemic. The purpose of this study is to enrich the connection between students and i ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Towards an Adaptive Upper Limb Rehabilitation Game with Tangible Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür, Louis Pierre Faucon, Pablo Maceira Elvira, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior

A key feature of a successful game is its ability to provide the player with an adequate level of challenge. However, the objective of difficulty adaptation in serious games is not only to maintain the player’s motivation by challenging, but also to ensure ...

2019

Iterative Classroom Teaching

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Volkan Cevher, Louis Pierre Faucon, Shuqing Teresa Yeo, Kamalaruban Parameswaran

We consider the machine teaching problem in a classroom-like setting wherein the teacher has to deliver the same examples to a diverse group of students. Their diversity stems from differences in their initial internal states as well as their learning rate ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2019

FROG: rapid prototyping of collaborative learning scenarios

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Stian Haklev, Thanasis Hadzilacos

We describe FROG, an integrated environment for authoring and running collaborative learning scenarios, called Orchestration Graphs. We describe the pedagogical background and the technical architecture, and present a case study of a teacher using FROG to ...

2017

Orchestration Graphs: Enabling Rich Social Pedagogical Scenarios in MOOCs

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Stian Haklev, Thanasis Hadzilacos

One of the initial promises of MOOCs was to enable participants from around the world to learn and build knowledge together, however existing MOOC platforms are very limited in their collaborative functionality. Using a recent educational modeling language ...

ACM2017

Semi-Markov model for simulating MOOC students

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Lukasz Kidzinski

Large-scale experiments are often expensive and time consuming. Although Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) provide a solid and consistent framework for learning analytics, MOOC practitioners are still reluctant to risk resources in experiments. In this s ...

2016