Prime Climb is an educational game that provides individualized support for learning number factorization skills. This support is delivered by a pedagogical agent in the form of hints based on a model of student learning. Previous studies with Prime Climb indicated that students may not always be paying attentions to the hints, even when they are justified. In this paper we discuss preliminary ...

With the rapid development of the Internet and advances in multimedia technologies, web-based educational systems are becoming popular. Due to different types of learners using these systems, it is necessary to provide them with an individualized learning support system. A framework of web-based learning support system (WLSS) is presented by focusing on learning process and activities, as well ...

Adapting to learners’ needs and providing useful, individualized feedback to help them succeed has been a hallmark of most intelligent tutoring systems. More recently, to promote deep learning and critical thinking skills in STEM disciplines, researchers have begun developing open-ended learning environments that present learners with complex problems and a set of tools for learning and problem...

The HANDS (Helping Autism-diagnosed teenagers Navigate and Develop Socially) research project involves the creation of an e-learning toolset that can be used to develop individualized tools to support the social development of teenagers with an autism diagnosis. The e-learning toolset is based on ideas from persuasive technology. This paper addresses the system design of the HANDS toolset as se...

This study investigates students’ perceptions of the “effective dimensions of interactive learning” in a hybrid course. A case-study design was used, and 25 students enrolled in “Computer Networks and Communication,” a course at a public university in Turkey, formed the sample of this study. The study lasted for 14 weeks. At the end of the study, interviews were conducted to gather data on the ...

Intelligent tutoring systems emerge from a multidisciplinary field of study that draws upon artificial intelligence, computer science, and cognitive science to create instructional technologies that offer immediate feedback and individualized instruction. Broadly construed, most intelligent tutoring systems can be characterized as having two loops: an outer loop and an inner loop. The outer loo...

The American law school, throughout its existence, has been an instrument of mass production. Today, and from the beginning, the bulk of formal legal education has been passively acquired in large classes, with only limited opportunities to learn by doing, and few chances for extended one-on-one discussions between student and professor. To be sure, some opportunities for individualized involve...

Personalization is a very crucial matter in Web-based educational systems, since these systems aim at reaching a large and heterogeneous group of learners in settings where no teacher may be available. The personalization needed in distance learning may be achieved by the integration of Intelligent Tutoring Systems with Web-based education. In this paper we describe an adaptive Web-based Algebr...

The issue of treatment assignment is ordinarily dealt with within the framework of testing Aptitude Treatment Interaction hypotheses ATI research mostly uses linear regression techniques, and an ATI exist when the AT regression lines cross each other within the relevant interval of the aptitude variable. Consistent with this approach is the use of the points of interaction of AT regression line...

In today's language-learning classrooms, all of the students in a class almost always have the same text to read. Although students have different reading levels, it is impractical for a single teacher to find unique texts matched to each student's abilities. The REAP system was developed to make the process of providing students with individualized texts practical. The texts come in the form o...