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AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Developing Teaching Aids for Distance Education
As web-enhanced courses become more successful, they put considerable burdens on instructors and teaching assistants. We present our work on developing software tools to support in...
Jihie Kim, Carole Beal, Zeeshan Maqbool
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The eXtensible Tutor Architecture: A New Foundation for ITS
The eXtensible Tutor Architecture (XTA) was designed as a platform for creating and deploying many types of Intelligent Tutoring Systems across many different platforms. The XTA pr...
Goss Nuzzo-Jones, Jason A. Walonoski, Neil T. Heff...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Evaluating a Mixed-Initiative Authoring Environment: Is REDEEM for Real?
The REDEEM authoring tool allows teachers to create adapted learning environments for their students from existing material. Previous evaluations have shown that under experimental...
Shaaron Ainsworth, Piers Fleming
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Inferring learning and attitudes from a Bayesian Network of log file data
A student's goals and attitudes while interacting with a tutor are typically unseen and unknowable. However their outward behavior (e.g. problem-solving time, mistakes and hel...
Ivon Arroyo, Beverly Park Woolf
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Feedback Micro-engineering in EER-Tutor
Konstantin Zakharov, Antonija Mitrovic, Stellan Oh...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Positive and negative verbal feedback for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Abstract. We built three different versions of an ITS on a letter pattern extrapolation task: in one version, students only receive color-coded feedback; in the second, they receiv...
Barbara Di Eugenio, Xin Lu, Trina C. Kershaw, Andr...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Motivating Learners by Nurturing Animal Companions: My-Pet and Our-Pet
This paper reports a pilot study of how to utilize simulated animal companions to encourage students to pay more effort in their study in the classroom environment. A class of stud...
Zhi-Hong Chen, Yi-Chan Deng, Chih-Yueh Chou, Tak-W...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Relation-based heuristic diffusion framework for LOM generation
Learning Object Metadata (LOM) intends to facilitate the retrieval and reuse of learning material. However, the fastidious task of authoring them limits their use. Motivated by thi...
Olivier Motelet
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Authoring plug-in tutor agents by demonstration: Rapid, rapid tutor development
We combined two existing methods for rapid tutor development: “plug-in tutor agents” [6] and an authoring tool suite (CTAT) that supports the creation of tutors “by demonstra...
Vincent Aleven, Carolyn Penstein Rosé
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Use of Qualitative Reasoning Models of Interactions between Populations to Support Causal Reasoning of Deaf Students
Making inferences is crucial for understanding the world. The school may develop such skills but there are few formal opportunities for that. This paper describes an experiment de...
Paulo Salles, Heloisa Lima-Salles, Bert Bredeweg