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The most interesting self-learning platform I've found is expii.com created by Poh-Shen Lo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po-Shen_Loh https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

The most interesting self-learning platform I've found is expii.com created by Poh-Shen Lo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po-Shen_Loh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po-Shen_Loh It feeds you exercises and judging by your answers determines if you need more practice or not using an Elo rating system https://v1.expii.com/grandmaster https://v1.expii.com/grandmaster though I get the argument of having students pay for certs ergo they actually complete the courses, this other method seems to me to work just as well as paid motivation.

swiley 8y ago
That link crashes firefox.
yorwba 8y ago
Systems that keep track of your learning progress and automatically schedule exercises are probably the future of learning, but I'm not sure whether the approach taking by expii.com is good enough yet. I did a few calculus questions and noticed two aspects which I think could be improved: 1) the multiple-choice question format makes questions easier than they appear. I solved a differential-equation question by differentiating all 4 possible solutions, I would have been unable to solve it otherwise. 2) Most questions require combining several pieces of knowledge to arrive at a solution, but the Elo rating only keeps track of a score for the type of question. If you mess up a chain-rule question by misremembering the derivative of the inverse cosecant function, then you should get more questions about the inverse cosecant function rather than the chain rule, and vice versa. That said, changing those two things would require a lot of work, so I understand why it is the way it is.
- qwerty456127 8y ago
  As for the second problem, it also applies to DuoLingo: at some point I get bored by repetitive easy questions, start clicking too fast, make a mistake (or even a misclick) purely out of insufficient attention (while the correct answer is actually obvious to me) and get more boring questions on the same topic.

swiley 8y ago

That link crashes firefox.

yorwba 8y ago

Systems that keep track of your learning progress and automatically schedule exercises are probably the future of learning, but I'm not sure whether the approach taking by expii.com is good enough yet. I did a few calculus questions and noticed two aspects which I think could be improved: 1) the multiple-choice question format makes questions easier than they appear. I solved a differential-equation question by differentiating all 4 possible solutions, I would have been unable to solve it otherwise. 2) Most questions require combining several pieces of knowledge to arrive at a solution, but the Elo rating only keeps track of a score for the type of question. If you mess up a chain-rule question by misremembering the derivative of the inverse cosecant function, then you should get more questions about the inverse cosecant function rather than the chain rule, and vice versa. That said, changing those two things would require a lot of work, so I understand why it is the way it is.

qwerty456127 8y ago
As for the second problem, it also applies to DuoLingo: at some point I get bored by repetitive easy questions, start clicking too fast, make a mistake (or even a misclick) purely out of insufficient attention (while the correct answer is actually obvious to me) and get more boring questions on the same topic.