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AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Learner Trust in Learner Model Externalisations
This paper introduces t-OLM, an open learner model to investigate user trust in a range of learner model externalisations. It was found that, while sufficient levels of use were ma...
Norasnita Ahmad, Susan Bull
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evidence of Misunderstandings in Tutorial Dialogue and their Impact on Learning
We explore the frequency and impact of misunderstandings in an existing corpus of tutorial dialogues in which a student appears to get an interpretation that is not in line with wh...
Pamela W. Jordan, Diane J. Litman, Michael Lipschu...
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Who Helps When the Tutor Is Asleep?
While many computer tutoring systems have long been delivered as desktop applications, these systems have only recently begun to appear on mobile devices. In this work we apply pri...
Quincy Brown, Dario D. Salvucci, Frank J. Lee, Vin...
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Will Google destroy western democracy? Bias in policy problem solving
: Democracy requires students to choose policy positions based on evidence, yet confirmation bias prevents them from doing so. As a preliminary step in building a policy reasoning ...
Matthew W. Easterday, Vincent Aleven, Richard Sche...
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Revisiting Ill-Definedness and the Consequences for ITSs
: ITSs for ill-defined domains have attracted a lot of attention recently, which is well-deserved, as such ITSs are hard to develop. The first step towards such ITSs is reaching a ...
Antonija Mitrovic, Amali Weerasinghe
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Analysing Semantic Flow in Academic Writing
Stephen T. O'Rourke, Rafael A. Calvo
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Identifying strategies in user's exploratory learning behaviour for mathematical generalisation
Abstract. The nature of the activities that take place in Exploratory Learning Environments allow generating a variety of learner trajectories and makes difficult to develop a mod...
Mihaela Cocea, George D. Magoulas
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Highlighting Learning Across a Degree with an Independent Open Learner Model
This paper introduces UK-SpecIAL, a simple independent open learner model to raise learner awareness of their progress towards learning outcomes across components of their degree. ...
Susan Bull, Peter Gardner
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Eliciting Emotional Thought During Critical Reading for Academic Writing
One of the crucial cognitive processes in academic writing is that of problem-finding in the critical reading stage before planning an essay. With the focus of our study being on ...
Satoshi V. Suzuki, Aiko Shiraishi, Hiroaki Suzuki
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Handling Uncertainty and Multiple Perspectives for Learner Modeling by Cognitive Mapping
This research deals with two issues for learner modeling: uncertainty and multiple perspectives. Hence, it proposes a process called cognitive mapping to acquire and describe objec...
Alejandro Peña Ayala