Adding student collaboration to an intelligent tutoring system could leverage the benefits of both approaches. We have incorporated a mutual peer tutoring script, where students of...
Erin Walker, Bruce M. McLaren, Nikol Rummel, Kenne...
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...
: We describe the design and evaluation of an affective pedagogical agent persona for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The goal of our research was to develop an agent embodying a per...
Konstantin Zakharov, Antonija Mitrovic, Lucy Johns...
Affective reasoning has been the subject of increasing attention in recent years. Because negative affective states such as frustration and anxiety can impede progress toward learn...
Applying Virtual Reality (VR) in combination with Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) is a promising approach to computer based learning and training. However, the classical struc...
The role of explicit feedback in learning has been studied from a variety of perspectives and in many contexts. In this paper, we examine the impact of the specificity of feedback ...
Matthew Hays, H. Chad Lane, Daniel Auerbach, Mark ...
We describe a novel framework developed for transfer learning within reinforcement learning (RL) problems. Then we exhibit how this framework can be extended to intelligent tutorin...
Kimberly Ferguson, Beverly Park Woolf, Sridhar Mah...
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...
Generative and evaluative approaches are two different ways of diagnosing students’ input that have been realized in a number of intelligent tutoring systems. We describe how Ac...
A central challenge in the design of motivationally intelligent tutoring systems lies in defining and diagnosing a learner’s motivational state: in particular, in distinguishing ...