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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
AIEDU
2005
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13 years 11 months ago
An Evaluation of a Hybrid Language Understanding Approach for Robust Selection of Tutoring Goals
In this paper, we explore the problem of selecting appropriate interventions for students based on an analysis of their interactions with a tutoring system. In the context of the W...
Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Kurt VanLehn
AIED
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Short and Long Term Benefits of Enjoyment and Learning within a Serious Game
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have been used for decades to teach students domain content or strategies. ITSs often struggle to maintain students’ interest and sustain a pr...
G. Tanner Jackson, Kyle B. Dempsey, Danielle S. Mc...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Livenotes: a system for cooperative and augmented note-taking in lectures
We describe Livenotes, a shared whiteboard system and educational practice that uses wireless communication and tablet computing to support real-time conversations within small gr...
Matthew Kam, Jingtao Wang, Alastair Iles, Eric Tse...
CHI
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
The Persona Effect: Affective Impact of Animated Pedagogical Agents
Animated pedagogical agents that inhabit interactive learning environments can exhibit strikingly lifelike behaviors. In addition to providing problem-solving advice in response t...
James C. Lester, Sharolyn A. Converse, Susan H. Ka...