- Devendra Singh Chaplot, Yiming Yang, J. Carbonell, K. Koedinger. 2016. Data-driven Automated Induction of Prerequisite Structure Graphs. Abstract: With the growing popularity of MOOCs and sharp trend of digitalizing education, there is a huge amount of free digital educational material on the web along with the activity logs of large number of participating students. However, this data is largely unstructured and there is hardly any information about the relationship between material from diﬀerent sources. We propose a generic algorithm to use educational material and student activity data from heterogeneous sources to create a Prerequisite Structure Graph (PSG). A PSG is a directed acyclic graph, where the nodes are educational units and the edges specify the pairwise ordering of the units in eﬀective teaching by instructors or for eﬀective learning by students. We propose an unsupervised approach utilizing both text content and student data, which outperforms to supervised methods (utilizing only text content) on the task of estimating a PSG.
