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AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge
This paper describes a system that automatically links study materials to encyclopedic knowledge, and shows how the availability of such knowledge within easy reach of the learner ...
Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Sun Seeking: Interactive Story-Reading Through Different Media
Abstract. This poster introduces two pilot studies on children’s story reading and retelling using interactive media that move beyond familiar keyboard and mouse interaction. The...
Hilary Smith, Rosemary Luckin, Danae Stanton Frase...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Explaining Self-Explaining: A Contrast between Content and Generation
Self-explaining has been repeatedly shown to result in positive learning outcomes for students in a wide variety of disciplines. However, there are two potential accounts for why s...
Robert G. M. Hausmann, Kurt VanLehn
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Profiling Student Interactions in Threaded Discussions with Speech Act Classifiers
On-line discussion is a popular form of web-based computer-mediated communication and is an important medium for distance education. Automatic tools for analyzing online discussion...
Sujith Ravi, Jihie Kim
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Dialog Convergence and Learning
Abstract. In this paper we examine whether the student-to-tutor convergence of lexical and speech features is a useful predictor of learning in a corpus of spoken tutorial dialogs....
Arthur Ward, Diane J. Litman
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
How did the e-learning session go? The Student Inspector
Good teachers know their students, and exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimise their instruction. Traditional teachers know their students because they interact with them face-...
Oliver Scheuer, Claus Zinn
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Influence of Learner Characteristics on Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue
Tutorial dialogue has been the subject of increasing attention in recent years, and it has become evident that empirical studies of humanhuman tutorial dialogue can contribute impo...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. L...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Fitting Spatial Ability into Intelligent Tutoring Systems Development
Building effective learning environments is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the environments’ audience: the learners. This paper focus...
Nancy Milik, Antonija Mitrovic, Michael Grimley
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Comparing Student-Constructed Open Learner Model Presentations to the Domain
Increasingly, learning environments are opening the learner model to the user it represents. This paper describes a study in which students were able to create their own presentati...
Andrew Mabbott, Susan Bull
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Situation Creator: A Pedagogical Agent Creating Learning Opportunities
In a multi-user, real-time, and situation-based learning environment, the availability of enough and appropriate situations is crucial for success. In order to improve effectivenes...
Yongwu Miao, Heinz Ulrich Hoppe, Niels Pinkwart