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*************** Schedule ***************
Schedule is tentative. Workshop is on 29 June. Times are in CEST, i.e., Paris local time (15:00 CEST is 09:00 US Eastern time). 

14:55-15:00       Welcome and opening remarks

15:00-15:30       SPEAKER: Tanja Kaser, EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
                  TITLE: "Modeling and Individualizing Learning in Open-Ended Learning Environments"

15:30-16:00       SPEAKER: Simon Woodhead, Eedi (London, UK)
                  TITLE: "Eedi and the NeurIPS 2020 Education Challenge Dataset"

16:00-16:30       SPEAKER: Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
                  TITLE: "Deconfounding Reinforcement Learning in Observational Settings"

16:30-17:00       Discussion with speakers: Tanja, Simon, and Jose

17:00-17:10       Short break

17:10-18:00       Spotlight presentations
                    (1) Emmy Liu: "Statistical Consequences of Dueling Bandits"
                    (2) Tristan Maidment: "Capturing Student-Robot Interactions for a Data-Driven Educational Dialogue RL Environment"
                    (3) Samuel Spaulding: "Towards Transferrable Personalized Student Models in Educational Games"
                    (4) Benoit Choffin: "Extending Adaptive Spacing Heuristics to Multi-Skill Items"
                    (5) Anna Rafferty: "Getting Too Personal(ized): The Importance of Feature Choice in Online Adaptive Algorithms"

18:00-18:30       Break

18:30-19:00       SPEAKER: Min Chi, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, USA)
                  TITLE: "The Impact of Pedagogical Policies on Student Learning: A Reinforcement Learning Approach"

19:00-19:30       SPEAKER: Emma Brunskill, Stanford University (Stanford, USA)
                  TITLE: "More Practical Reinforcement Learning Inspired by Challenges in Education and Other Societally-Focussed Applications"

19:30-20:00       Discussion with speakers: Min, Emma, Joe, and Shayan

20:00-20:10       Short break

20:10-21:00       Spotlight presentations
                    (6) Jacob Whitehill: "Approximately Optimal Teaching of Approximately Optimal Learners"
                    (7) Christopher Maclellan: "Learning Expert Models for Educationally Relevant Tasks using Reinforcement Learning"
                    (8) Jithendaraa Subramanian: "Deep Reinforcement Learning to Simulate, Train, and Evaluate Instructional Sequencing Policies"
                    (9) Fahmid Morshed Fahid: "Adaptively Scaffolding Cognitive Engagement with Batch Constrained Deep Q-Networks"
                    (10) Ethan Prihar: "Integrating Reinforcement Learning into the ASSISTments Platform"

21:00-21:30       SPEAKER: Joe Austerweil, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, USA)
                  TITLE: "Is Reinforcement Just a Value to be Maximized?"

21:30-22:00       SPEAKER: Shayan Doroudi, University of California Irvine (Irvine, USA)
                  TITLE: "Reinforcement Learning for Instructional Sequencing: Learning from Its Past to Meet the Challenges of the Future"

22:00-22:05       Closing remarks
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