Q-Learning Lab: Teaching Reinforcement Learning Through Learner-Generated Trace Analysis

Created: 2026-07-14 | Tags: active-learninghigher-edreinforcement-learningstem-education

Ekkachai Jueng (2026) โ€” arXiv preprint.

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Presents Q-Learning Lab, a single-file tool that makes the Bellman update concrete by letting undergraduates inspect how each value is computed and why actions are chosen, through learner-generated trace analysis. It addresses the abstraction gap where students watch policy convergence without understanding mechanism.

A reinforcement-learning-education artifact grounded in active-learning and stem-education for higher-ed. It connects to self-regulated-learning by making the learning process observable, and to scaffolding of difficult quantitative concepts, offering a reproducible teaching tool for ML/RL courses.

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APA: Ekkachai Jueng (2026). Q-Learning Lab: Teaching Reinforcement Learning Through Learner-Generated Trace Analysis. arXiv:2607.10802. arXiv preprint.