Introduction to Neural Networks and Uses in EDM

In this half-day tutorial, participants first explore the fundamentals of feed-forward neural networks, such as the backpropagation mechanism; the subsequent introduction to the more complex Long Short Term Memory neural networks builds on this knowledge. The tutorial also covers the basics of the attention mechanism, the Transformer neural networks, and their application in education with Deep Knowledge Tracing. There will be some hands-on applications on open educational datasets. The participants should leave the tutorial with the ability to use neural networks in their research. A laptop capable of installing and running Python and the Keras library is required for full participation in this half-day tutorial