Personalized tutoring with automatic matching of content-modality and learner-preferences

An apparatus for use in presenting a plurality of concepts to a plurality of students, said apparatus comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor coupled with the memory, the processor operative:
• to develop a first statistical model of one or more modalities effective for teaching at least a given concept of the plurality of concepts across the plurality of students;
• to develop a second statistical model of one or more modalities effective for learning by at least a given student of the plurality of students across the plurality of concepts;
• to combine the first and second models to determine one or more modalities for presenting at least the given concept to at least the given student, the determined one or more modalities being ranked in order of best modality for teaching the at least a given concept of the plurality of concepts to the at least a given student of the plurality of students;
• and
• to present at least the given concept to at least the given student using the determined one or more modalities,
• wherein developing the first statistical model comprises maintaining a multi-dimensional matrix indicating an effectiveness of at least one of the one or more modalities for teaching the at least a given concept to the at least a given student;
• and aggregating the effectiveness of the at least one of the one or more modalities for teaching the at least a given student across the plurality of students.

A computer program product for use in presenting a plurality of concepts to a plurality of students, said computer program product comprising a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having machine-readable program code embodied therewith, said machine-readable program code comprising machine-readable program code configured:

• to develop a first statistical model of one or more modalities effective for teaching at least a given concept of the plurality of concepts across the plurality of students;
• to develop a second statistical model of one or more modalities effective for learning by at least a given student of the plurality of students across the plurality of concepts;
• to combine the first and second models to determine one or more modalities for presenting at least the given concept to at least the given student, the determined one or more modalities being ranked in order of best modality for teaching the at least a given concept of the plurality of concept to the at least a given student of the plurality of students;
• and
• to present at least the given concept to at least the given student using the determined one or more modalities,
• wherein developing the first statistical model comprises maintaining a multi-dimensional matrix indicating an effectiveness of at least one of the one or more modalities for teaching the at least a given concept to the at least a given student;
• and aggregating the effectiveness of the at least one of the one or more modalities for teaching the at least a given student across the plurality of students.