Creating Interactive and Visual Educational Resources for AI
Sameer Singh, Sebastian Riedel

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Sameer Singh, Sebastian Riedel. "Creating Interactive and Visual Educational Resources for AI". AAAI 2016 Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), February 2015.

Abstract
Teaching artificial intelligence is effective if the experience is a visual and interactive one, with educational materials that utilize combinations of various content types such as text, math, and code into an integrated experience. Unfortunately, easy-to-use tools for creating such pedagogical resources are not available to the educators, resulting in most courses being taught using a disconnected set of static materials, which is not only ineffective for learning AI, but further, requires repeated and redundant effort for the instructor. In this paper, we introduce Moro, a software tool for easily creating and presenting AI-friendly teaching materials. Moro notebooks integrate content of different types (text, math, code, images), allow realtime interactions via modifiable and executable code blocks, and are viewable in browsers both as long-form pages and as presentations. Creating notebooks is easy and intuitive; the creation tool is also in-browser, is WYSIWYG for quick iterations of editing, and supports a variety of shortcuts and customizations for efficiency. We present three deployed case studies of Moro that widely differ from each other, demonstrating its utility in a variety of scenarios such as in-class teaching and conference tutorials.

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  Sameer Singh, Sebastian Riedel. "Creating Interactive
  and Visual Educational Resources for AI". <i>AAAI
  2016 Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial
  Intelligence (EAAI)</i>, February 2015.

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  @article{SinghRiedel15_CreatingInteractiveVisualEducationalResourcesForAI,
      author = {Sameer Singh and Sebastian Riedel},
      title = {Creating Interactive and Visual Educational
                Resources for AI},
      journal = {AAAI 2016 Symposium on Educational Advances in
                Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)},
      month = {February},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Teaching artificial intelligence is effective if
                the experience is a visual and interactive one,
                with educational materials that utilize
                combinations of various content types such as
                text, math, and code into an integrated
                experience. Unfortunately, easy-to-use tools for
                creating such pedagogical resources are not
                available to the educators, resulting in most
                courses being taught using a disconnected set of
                static materials, which is not only ineffective
                for learning AI, but further, requires repeated
                and redundant effort for the instructor. In this
                paper, we introduce Moro, a software tool for
                easily creating and presenting AI-friendly
                teaching materials. Moro notebooks integrate
                content of different types (text, math, code,
                images), allow realtime interactions via
                modifiable and executable code blocks, and are
                viewable in browsers both as long-form pages and
                as presentations. Creating notebooks is easy and
                intuitive; the creation tool is also in-browser,
                is WYSIWYG for quick iterations of editing, and
                supports a variety of shortcuts and customizations
                for efficiency. We present three deployed case
                studies of Moro that widely differ from each
                other, demonstrating its utility in a variety of
                scenarios such as in-class teaching and conference
                tutorials.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/706.html}
  }
  

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