FutureMe: Negotiating Learning Goals with your Future Learning-Self Avatar

Abstract

This paper discusses the challenges towards designing an educational avatar which visualizes the future learning-self of the student in order to promote their self-regulated learning skills. More specifically, the avatar follows a negotiation-based interaction with the student during the goal-setting process of self-regulated learning. The goal of the avatar is to help the student get insights of their possible future leaning-selves, given a set of short-term goals regarding their study materials and homework. Our approach utilizes a recurrent neural network as the underlying prediction model for the future learning outcomes, in the context of language learning.