Adding a module to the Oscar educational website allowing teachers to create new types of interactive exercises for their students

Details

Supervisors

Mens, Kim ; Fourny, Laurent

Faculty

Ecole polytechnique de Louvain

Degree label

Master [60] en sciences informatiques

Abstract

The non-profit organization, Eureduka, is developing Oscar, an educational website intended to support the work of teachers and to improve the learning experience of students. In its actual state, the website provides tools to evaluate the knowledge and skills of students on precise questions. It also provides educational resources adapted to the student's level. One of the key concepts of Oscar is to organize the skills in a tree structure where each node represents a specific skill. The tree abstraction represents the order in which the student should master the skills where a "child node" should be acquired after its parent. For example, the skill "multiplying integers" should be mastered before trying to multiply decimals. In this context, we were asked by the Oscar team to provide a new module whose purpose is to assess mathematical reasoning skills for its website.