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Area of Science:

  • Educational Technology
  • Control Theory
  • Knowledge Management

Background:

  • Effective knowledge dissemination is crucial for personalized education.
  • Periodic teaching activities significantly influence the learning process.
  • Current models may not fully capture the dynamic interplay of teaching and learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a periodic impulsive knowledge dissemination system for enhanced personalized education.
  • To define and optimize 'learning effectiveness' as a balance between knowledge dissemination benefits and costs.
  • To determine an optimal teaching strategy that maximizes learning effectiveness.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a periodic impulsive knowledge dissemination system.
  • Formulation of learning effectiveness as an objective function.
  • Application of optimal control theory to solve the dynamic optimization problem.
  • Numerical simulations of the optimization system in practical scenarios.

Main Results:

  • An optimization system for knowledge dissemination was derived using optimal control theory.
  • Numerical examples demonstrated the practical application and effectiveness of the proposed system.
  • An optimal teaching strategy was identified to maximize learning effectiveness.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed periodic impulsive knowledge dissemination system effectively regenerates the knowledge dissemination process.
  • The optimal teaching strategy can be widely applied to optimize personalized education.
  • This approach enhances the overall effectiveness of knowledge dissemination in educational settings.