This case description focuses on how we have used activity theoretical concepts as analytical tools for improving better pedagogical design regarding a particular course on objectoriented programming. We argue that productive learning environments must be considered as environments where certain pedagogical, communicative, technological conditions are incorporated with the specific knowledge do...

GRST101 Elementary German This course is an introduction to German and leads to communicative competence in German by building on the four primary skills--speaking, listening, reading, and writing--while developing participants' awareness of life and culture of German-speaking countries. Learning German and its structure will also enhance students' awareness of commonalities between the English...

We build the generic methodology based on machine learning and reasoning to detect the patterns of interaction between conflicting agents, including humans and their assistants. Learning behavior via communicative actions Over last decade, substantial efforts have gone into designing intelligent artificial assistants. These assistants will help human agents in a variety of everyday tasks, as we...

This paper is about people. It is about understanding how learning and communication mutually influence one another; allowing people to infer each other’s communicative behavior. In order to understand how people learn to communicate, we refer to existing theories. They are the logical theories of learning and communication, situated cognition and activity theory. Thus, this paper is about appl...

We build a generic methodology based on learning and reasoning to detect specific attitudes of human agents and patterns of their interactions. Human attitudes are determined in terms of communicative actions of agents; models of machine learning are used when it is rather hard to identify attitudes in a rulebased form directly. We employ scenario knowledge representation and learning technique...

Multimodal Learning Analytics (MLA) technology has received increasing attention in the learning science field. Recently, novel types of assessments using MLA to analyze the process of student activities have been advocated. In this paper, we suggest an extension of MLA to educational assessments measuring communicative competence. MLA is useful for the measurement of all aspects of the human c...

By most accounts, language is uniquely human. No other species has a communicative system with such expressive power, one that allows us to transmit a seemingly endless set of meanings to our conspecifics. Every sentence we produce is composed of smaller linguistic units put together in a rule-governed manner. The standard view is that sentences are put together using syntactic rules that defin...

In the throes of an educational transformation from a print culture to a digitized culture, educators face an important challenge of how to define e-learning productivity. This article reviews the meanings of learning productivity from the selective literature and points out the need to conceptualize learning productivity in an e-learning environment. It draws on Habermas’ Cognitive Interests T...