Integrating educational knowledge: reactivation of prior knowledge during educational learning enhances memory integration

Integrating Ontological Prior Knowledge into Relational Learning

Ontologies represent an important source of prior information which lends itself to the integration into statistical modeling. This paper discusses approaches towards employing ontological knowledge for relational learning. Our analysis is based on the IHRM model that performs relational learning by including latent variables that can be interpreted as cluster variables of the entities in the d...

Journal of Educational Psychology Feedback Both Helps and Hinders Learning: The Causal Role of Prior Knowledge

Prior knowledge is essential for the beneficial effect of targeted memory reactivation during sleep

Prior knowledge speeds up system consolidation and accelerates integration of newly acquired memories into existing neocortical knowledge networks. By using targeted memory reactivations, we demonstrate that prior knowledge is also essential for successful reactivation and consolidation of memories during sleep, both on the behavioral and oscillatory level (i.e., theta and fast spindle activity...

Targeted Memory Reactivation during Sleep Depends on Prior Learning.

STUDY OBJECTIVES When sounds associated with learning are presented again during slow-wave sleep, targeted memory reactivation (TMR) can produce improvements in subsequent location recall. Here we used TMR to investigate memory consolidation during an afternoon nap as a function of prior learning. PARTICIPANTS Twenty healthy individuals (8 male, 19-23 y old). MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Partic...

Knowledge Representation Intelligent Educational Systems

In this chapter, we deal with knowledge representation in intelligent educational systems (IESs). We make an effort to define requirements for knowledge representation (KR) in an IES. The requirements concern all stages of an IES’s life cycle (construction, operation and maintenance), all types of users (experts, engineers, learners) and all its modules (domain knowledge, user model, pedagogica...