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AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Effect of Metacognitive Support on Student Behaviors in Learning by Teaching Environments
We have developed environments that use teaching as a metacognitive, reflective, and iterative process to help middle school students learn about complex processes. We demonstrate ...
Jason Tan, John Wagster, Yanna Wu, Gautam Biswas
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Benefits of Handwritten Input for Students Learning Algebra Equation Solving
Building on past results establishing a benefit for using handwriting when entering mathematics on the computer, we hypothesize that handwriting as an input modality may be able to...
Lisa Anthony, Jie Yang, Kenneth R. Koedinger
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Porting an Intelligent Tutoring System across Domains
One possible approach to reducing the cost of developing an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) is to reuse the components of an existing ITS. We used this approach to develop an And...
Min Chi, Kurt VanLehn
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Emotions and Learning with AutoTutor
The relationship between emotions and learning was investigated by tracking the emotions that college students experienced while learning about computer literacy with AutoTutor. Au...
Arthur C. Graesser, Patrick Chipman, Brandon King,...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Accelerated Future Learning via Explicit Instruction of a Problem Solving Strategy
Explicit instruction in a problem-solving strategy accelerated learning not only in the domain where it was taught but also in a second domain where it was not taught. We present d...
Min Chi, Kurt VanLehn
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Taking advantage of the Semantics of a Lesson Graph based on Learning Objects
Lesson graphs are composed of Learning Objects (LOs) and include a valuable amount of information about the content and usage of the LOs, described by the LO metadata. Graphs also ...
Olivier Motelet, Nelson Baloian, Benjamin Piwowars...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Ontologies for an Effective Design of Collaborative Learning Activities
Although artificial intelligence has been successfully introduced to enhance Education through technologies in the past few years, major challenges still remain. One of them is how...
Seiji Isotani, Riichiro Mizoguchi
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Choosing Reading Passages for Vocabulary Learning by Topic to Increase Intrinsic Motivation
: Intrinsic motivation has been shown in previous research to lead to better learning. In order to increase intrinsic motivation, REAP, a tutoring system for ESL vocabulary was enh...
Michael Heilman, Alan Juffs, Maxine Eskenazi
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Changing Attitudes and Performance with Computer-generated Social Models
Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima, E. Ashby Plant, Amy L. Ba...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Tools for Authoring a Dialogue Agent that Participates in Learning Studies
TuTalk supports the rapid development of dialogue agents for learning applications. It enables an experimenter to create a dialogue agent with either minimal or no programming and ...
Pamela W. Jordan, Brian Hall, Michael A. Ringenber...