Tutoring Social Sciences learning

Affective tutoring systems in a learning social network

Knowledge societies also named learning social networks allow interaction and collaboration between individuals (instructors and students), who share their connections under a scheme of learning communities around common learning interest. In this paper, we present an affective tutoring system inside a knowledge society implemented in a learning social network. We have designed a new architectu...

Social Media for Ubiquitous Learning and Adaptive Tutoring

I n recent years, we’ve witnessed an increase in the number of available social media services, including Facebook, Second Life, Twitter, and WhatsApp. These tools facilitate a more socially connected Web, where everyone can publish content and interact with each other, create online communities, and share multimedia content. We thus have a social and participatory Web, in which users are not j...

Learning from human tutoring

Human one-to-one tutoring has been shown to be a very effective form of instruction. Three contrasting hypotheses, a tutor-centered one, a student-centered one, and an interactive one could all potentially explain the effectiveness of tutoring. To test these hypotheses, analyses focused not only on the effectiveness of the tutors’ moves, but also on the effectiveness of the students’ constructi...

Multimedia learning in social sciences: limitations of external graphical representations

In a series of six experimental studies, each consisting of three sub-studies, the central question was researched whether adding external graphical representations to printed or electronic learning materials improves retention and transfer scores. These studies research the degree of generalizability of Mayer s cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML) to the knowledge domain of the socia...

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