bitbanger / al_core

A repository for the core agent functionality of the Apprentice Learner Architecture

Apprentice Learner Architecture

The Apprentice Learner Architecture provides a framework for modeling and simulating learners working educational technologies. There are three general GitHub repositories for the AL Project:

1. AL_Core (this repository), which is the core library for learner modeling used to configure and instantiate agents and author their background knowledge.
2. AL_Train (https://github.com/apprenticelearner/AL_Train), which contains code for interfacing AL agents with CTAT-HTML tutors and running training experiments.
3. AL_Outerloop (https://github.com/apprenticelearner/AL_Outerloop), which provides additional functionality to AL_Train simulating adaptive curricula.

Installation

To install the AL_Core library, clone the respository to your machine using the GitHub deskptop application or by running the following command in a terminal / command line:

git clone https://github.com/apprenticelearner/AL_Core

Navigate to the directory where you cloned AL_Core in a terminal / command line and run:

python -m pip install -e .

Finally, change directory to AL_Core/django and run the migrations for the django configuration:

cd AL_Core/django/
python manage.py migrate

Everything should now be fully installed and ready.

Important Links

• Source code: https://github.com/apprenticelearner/AL_Core
• Documentation: https://al-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Examples

We have created a number of examples to demonstrate basic usage of the Appentice Learner that make use of this repository as well as AL_Train. These can be found on the examples page of the wiki.

Citing this Software

If you use this software in a scientific publiction, then we would appreciate citation of the following paper:

Christopher J MacLellan, Erik Harpstead, Rony Patel, and Kenneth R Koedinger. 2016. The Apprentice Learner Architecture: Closing the loop between learning theory and educational data. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining - EDM ’16, 151–158. Retrieved from http://www.educationaldatamining.org/EDM2016/proceedings/paper_118.pdf

Bibtex entry:

@inproceedings{MacLellan2016a,
author = {MacLellan, Christopher J and Harpstead, Erik and Patel, Rony and Koedinger, Kenneth R},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining - EDM '16},
pages = {151--158},
title = {{The Apprentice Learner Architecture: Closing the loop between learning theory and educational data}},
url = {http://www.educationaldatamining.org/EDM2016/proceedings/paper{\_}118.pdf},
year = {2016}
}