This paper explores the use of twitter in a team based learning scenario. Twitter has been recently used by many educational institutions but most of these have been related to provide the information to the general audience. There has not been much study done to propose twitter as an educational in a classroom scenario. This paper tries to establish the use of twitter with a well establish mod...

We introduce a system focused on solving SemEval 2016 Task 2 – Interpretable Semantic Textual Similarity. The system explores machine learning and rule-based approaches to the task. We focus on machine learning and experiment with a wide variety of machine learning algorithms as well as with several types of features. The core of our system consists in exploiting distributional semantics to com...

To reduce the production cost of 3D-CG educational contents for e-Learning system and to improve the capability of self-learning system, we developed a new self-learning system based on the Cyber Person. Cyber Person is a Human Shaped Software Robot by using 3D Computer Graphics and Speech Synthesis technologies. This system includes 3DCG stage, many kind of stage parts (3D-CG shaped models, Ph...

While human tutors typically interact with students using spoken dialogue, most computer dialogue tutors are text-based. We have conducted two experiments comparing typed and spoken tutoring dialogues, one in a human-human scenario, and another in a human-computer scenario. In both experiments, we compared spoken versus typed tutoring for learning gains and time on task, and also measured the c...

Rapidly increasing urbanization in the world, especially in developing countries, let to increasing urban extents. Rapid urban growth causes to appearance many problems such as wasting environmental resources, inability of providing necessary services for citizens and unplanned growth. Urban mangers and planners need tools for understanding amount and size of future urban growths to prevent the...

BACKGROUND Available models for designing the structure of specific simulation-based learning (SBL) activities need further analysis. METHOD This retrospective study was conducted using independent samples t tests to examine differences in mean clinical nursing judgment development scores between students who completed a nursing program prior to the introduction of an experiential learning th...