PolyGloT A Personalized and Gamified eTutoring System

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PolyGloT: A Personalized and Gamified eTutoring System

Antonio Bucchiarone

Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Trento, Italy

bucchiarone@fbk.eu

Tommaso Martorella

Università di Pisa

Pisa, Italy

tom.martorella@gmail.com

Diego Colombo

Microsoft Corporation Redmond

WA, United States

diego.colombo@microsoft.com

ABSTRACT

The digital age is changing the role of educators and pushing for

a paradigm shift in the education system as a whole. Growing de-

mand for general and specialized education inside and outside class-

rooms is at the heart of this rising trend. In modern, heterogeneous

learning environments, the one-size-ts-all approach is proven

to be fundamentally awed. Individualization through adaptivity

is, therefore, crucial to nurture individual potential and address

accessibility needs and neurodiversity. By formalizing a learning

framework that takes into account all these dierent aspects, we

aim to dene and implement an open, content-agnostic, and ex-

tensible eTutoring platform to design and consume adaptive and

gamied learning experiences. Adaptive technology supplementing

teaching can extend the reach of every teacher, making it possible to

scale 1-1 learning experiences. There are many successful existing

technologies available but they come with xed environments that

are not always suitable for the targeted audiences of the course ma-

terial. This paper presents PolyGloT, a system able to help teachers

to design and implement a gamied and adaptive learning paths.

Through it we address some important issues including the engage-

ment, fairness, and eectiveness of learning environments. We do

not only propose an innovative platform that could foster the learn-

ing process of dierent disciplines, but it could also help teachers

and instructors in organizing learning material in an easy-access

repository.

CCS CONCEPTS

•Software and its engineering →Software design engineer-

ing;•Applied computing →Education;

KEYWORDS

Adaptive Learning, Adaptive Education, 1-1 eTutoring, AI-assisted

Education, Gamication, Gamied Education.

ACM Reference Format:

Antonio Bucchiarone, Tommaso Martorella, and Diego Colombo. 2022.

PolyGloT: A Personalized and Gamied eTutoring System. In Proceedings

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1 INTRODUCTION

Adaptive learning

is the delivery of personalized learning ex-

periences that address an individual’s unique needs instead of a

one-size-ts-all approach. It may be achieved through just-in-time

feedback, personalized learning paths, ad-hoc resources, or another

wide array of techniques. But why is it important? Education is

universally recognized as one of the factors with the highest im-

pact on society and the individual. The United Nations included

education in their 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

. UN-

ESCO launched the Global Education Coalition

in response to

the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Union created the Digi-

tal Education Action Plan (2021-2027)

to foster and support the

adaptation of educational systems in the digital age. This collective

global eort is motivated by a continuously increasing technology

availability and a rising global enrolment rate. Furthermore, accord-

ing to UNESCO, higher education is the fastest-growing sector

with its global enrolment rate doubled in the last twenty years [

Rising trends such as

exible learning pathways

and

micro-

credentials5

tend toward more versatile forms of content delivery

and credential recognition to accommodate the increasing demand

for specializing training, especially in the labour market.

Among the various aspects that comprise the education eld,

learning is the one that requires the most careful treatment. The

inherently complex domain lends itself to a wide range of forms and

means, each with its techniques and quirks. Learning may happen

at home, at work, or even on the go; thus, it is not limited to the

classroom only nor conned to formal settings in general. Learning

activities can (and should be) tailored around the individual. This

personalization process is critical when targeting neurodiverse

proles or students with accessibility needs. Not only is content’s

form fundamental, but delivery and additional aids are required to

make a learning experience impactful.

Educational resources

are the primary means to help students

in their learning journey. They can be of various kinds such as

videos, interactive tutorials, pdf texts, images, podcasts and many

others. Platforms such as Google Classroom,Microsoft Teams, or cus-

tom Moodle deployments are common ways to deliver content in

formal educational settings, but YouTube,Wikipedia, and platforms

like Udemy can reach a broader audience in informal environments.

1https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/education/

2https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse/globalcoalition

https://education.ec.europa.eu/focus-topics/digital-education/digital-education-

action-plan

4Data from UNESCO [9] and Statista (retrieved on 29 June 2022).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1226999/net-enrollment-rate-in-primary-school-

worldwide/ and https://www.statista.com/statistics/1227022/net-enrollment-rate-in-

secondary-school-worldwide/

https://education.ec.europa.eu/education-levels/higher-education/micro-

credentials

arXiv:2210.15256v1 [cs.SE] 27 Oct 2022

Conference’17, July 2017, Washington, DC, USA Antonio Bucchiarone, Tommaso Martorella, and Diego Colombo

Furthermore, the increasing availability of Open Educational Re-

sources (OER)

can help reduce teachers’ material preparation and

lower the accessibility barrier in terms of cost and material kind.

Learning is also crucial in the industry. The continuous techno-

logical disruptures are creating job positions in brand new elds

Entirely new hard skills are required to t the openings. Moreover,

soft skills are among the most sought-after skills because of their

lower trainability and a slower changing pace

. However, the oer

seldom matches the demand. This mismatch led to the need for

upskilling

and

reskilling

. The former means teaching employees

new, advanced and valuable skills to match the prole required for

the next step in their current career path. The latter, instead, targets

employees with a prole similar to the one required. It consists

in teaching them adjacent skills and training them for their new,

dierent job. Both of them are fundamental learning activities that

take place in varied (and often dissimilar) environments.

From a student’s perspective, eective teaching means

1-1 tu-

toring9

. It allows teachers to target specic misunderstandings and

necessities with real-time feedback and explanations relevant to the

student’s experiences. On the other end of the spectrum, the most

teacher-eective approach is the one-to-many lecture, where the

teacher prepares the material upfront for being presented to a wide

audience. One of this approach’s main downsides is encouraging

passive learning. A study by K.R. Koedinger et al. shows that the

"Doer Eect" is a causal association between practice and learn-

ing outcomes and that practicing is six times more eective than

reading [

]. Another signicant drawback lies in the motivational

aspect.

Active learning

is more eective in learning outcomes and

motivation than passive learning [

]. Despite that, a recent article

on PNAS by L. Deslauriers et al. highlights a negative correlation

between actual learning and the feeling of learning in the students

[

]. However,

gamication

and serious games gained consensus

as tools to motivate people to engage in benecial activities, even

if seen as unrewarding or tedious [1,4,6,7].

The design of a learning experience should take into account all

of these dierent factors. On the other hand,

a design framework

should not make assumptions about content type, form, de-

livery, and validation while still removing any obstacle be-

tween the teacher, the student, the environment, and the

learning experience.

Individual coaching is rarely feasible due

to poor scalability, whilst one-to-many general training is scalable

but lacks individualization altogether. That is the gap the Person-

alized and Gamied eTutoring System - PolyGloT - aims to ll.

Adaptive eTutoring systems support both teachers and students by

combining the benets of individualized delivery and manageabil-

ity by leveraging software personalization, while gamication can

be used to enhance motivation through personalized rewards or

cooperative and competitive activities.

The rest of the paper is structured as follows. Section 2presents

the needed background and the motivations that led us to realize

Open Educational Resources are public domain or open licensed educational

resources https://www.unesco.org/en/communication-information/open-solutions/

open-educational-resources

https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-strategy/linkedin-most-in-

demand-hard-and-soft-skills

https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/why-shell-

pushes-hard-on-soft-skills

9https://www.eschoolnews.com/2022/07/26/ai-intelligent-bots/

PolyGloT. Section 3introduces its architecture and explains how

it can help teachers create exible learning and eTutoring experi-

ences. AI planning and gamication mechanics needed for adaptive

learning will also be discussed by the end of section 3. Section 4

will describe a scenario where PolyGloT is used to assist teachers

and students in introductory statistics for a data science course.

Lastly, with Section 5we present a glimpse into future directions

and possibilities enabled by the proposed solution.

2 BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATIONS

Adaptive learning technologies have gained traction over the last

decade. Existing solutions have been successful in both domain-

specic [

] and institution-wise implementations. In 2015, the

Colorado Technical University (CTU) reported that, following their

Intellipath

™

adoption, the course pass rate rose sharply by 27%,

and the average grade and retention rate were also signicantly

aected. CogBooks

conducted a pilot study with Arizona State

University (ASU), resulting in ndings similar to CTU.

Smart Sparrow

(recently acquired by the industry-leading Pear-

son) provides a user-friendly WYSIWYG content authoring tool to

create interactive online experiences. Realizeit, Cerego and Cog-

Books create content for their adaptive platforms by partnering

with institutions like ASU, the American Psychological Association,

or directly with industrial partners and customers. Each platform

also provides in-depth analytics on the students’ performance, er-

rors, time spent learning, and other related metrics. Those solutions

solve the problem of individualization and verticality of linear learn-

ing paths but overlook a fundamental factor: familiarity with the

tooling and the environment. Job candidates in software engineer-

ing, for example, are expected to be somewhat comfortable with

industry-leading tools and methodologies. Therefore, not only de-

livering interactive exercises directly on those tools enables richer

experiences but also better prepares the students for their future.

High school electronics students, instead, may benet from hands-

on experience with physical devices like Arduinos

. Moreover,

integrating education-ready tools like pi-top kits

or Swift Play-

grounds14 allows access to already existing quality resources.

Novel interactive learning experiences can emerge even with

the use of available technologies. Augmented and virtual reality

are still emerging, but education and industry are already taking

advantage of their benets [

]. In the classroom, they are used to

promote interactivity and generate engagement. In the industry,

they found use in, among the others, remote maintenance on indus-

trial devices, surgery training programs, aviation, and even military

equipment

. Similarly, the use of voice user interfaces (like vir-

tual assistants) may be a means to mimic a study companion that

can ask questions, give feedback and help with misunderstandings.

Adaptive educational technology should allow and encourage the

10https://www.cogbooks.com/

11https://www.smartsparrow.com/

12https://www.arduino.cc/

pi-top produces high-quality educational kits for electronics and robotics based on

the Raspberry Pi. https://www.pi-top.com/

14https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/

Since 2019 Microsoft and the US Army have collaborated on using HoloLens to

enhance soldiers’ situational awareness https://news.microsoft.com/transform/u-s-

army-to-use-hololens-technology-in-high-tech-headsets-for-soldiers/

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