Technology has changed the landscape of how education is delivered to society. Despite the many innovative ideas adopted in education applications, research has been insufficient on developing a central collaborative edutainment interface, complemented by mobile communication and social media to enhance learner performance, especially for interpersonal and social skills. We review how technolog...

The personalized diagnosis, assistance and evaluation of students in open learning environments can be a challenging task, especially in cases that the processes need to be taking place in real-time, classroom conditions. This paper describes the design of an open learning environment under development, designed to monitor the comprehension of students, assess their prior knowledge, build indiv...

New pedagogies are developing with the digital age which reflect collaboration, internalised thinking, reflection and iteration rather than the concept of the taught lesson, however the internet is still regarded by many as a convenient mechanism for delivering traditional materials online. Whilst a “content push” model is often the norm, opportunities for participation by the learner are often...

We describe a system for producing automated professional mentoring using a quantitative model of enculturation. We are developing an automated mentoring technology, AutoMentor, that builds on previous research on automated tutoring systems, specifically on AutoTutor, a computer tutor that helps students learn about science and technology topics by holding a conversation in natural language wit...

In this paper, we report the joint participation of NUS and I2R team in Knowledge Base Population at Text analysis conference 2010. For Entity Linking, we analyze IR approaches and SVM classification in the disambiguation stage and develop a supervised learner for combining these approaches. The combined system performs better than the individual components and achieves results much better than...

One of the barriers to participation in retraining and upgrading programs is the adult learner attrition rate. According to the report by Strath Lane Associates (1983) on Adult Basic Education in the Atlantic Provinces, one of the major barriers to access and program delivery in the region was the lack of follow-up on why people drop out of programs. The U.S. Department of Health, Education and...

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is often presented as a promising learning method. However, it is also facing some new challenges. Apart from answering the question of whether or not working with CSCL generates satisfying learning outcomes, it is important to determine whether or not all participants profit from collaboration, with the computer as a means of communication. This...

The relevance and value of increased learner participation in effect change research is increasing its significance importance across the education sector, guided by current national governance move local authorities to implement action models drive improvement. This paper reports on a study led primary seven pupils remote rural Scottish school, working collaboratively towards planning, develop...

Public participation in science and gamification of science are two strong contemporary trends, especially in the area of emerging techno-sciences. Involvement of the public in research-related activities is an integral part of public engagement with science and technologies, which can be successfully achieved through a participatory game design. Focusing on the participatory dimension of educa...

Many teachers still use in-class multiple choice exams in their classes, the primary goal of which is to see how much the students have already learned. The assessment strategies we will examine in this paper change the focus from assessing whether students have learned anything to creating assessments which double as learning experiences themselves. Assessments do not have to merely measure wh...