Computer-Assisted and Web-Based Innovations in Psychology, Special Education, and Health edited by James K. Luiselli & Aaron J. Fischer. London & San Diego: Academic Press, 2016. 408pp., $74.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9780128020753

Second language writing instruction has been greatly influenced by the growing importance of technology and the recent shift of paradigm from a cognitive to a social orientation in second language acquisition (Lantolf & Thorne, 2006). Therefore, the applications of computer assisted language learning and activity theory have been suggested as a promising framework for writing studies. The prese...

We study the problem of computer-assisted teaching with explanations. Conventional approaches for machine teaching typically only provide feedback at the instance level, e.g., the category or label of the instance. However, it is intuitive that clear explanations from a knowledgeable teacher can significantly improve a student’s ability to learn a new concept. To address these existing limitati...

The variety of didactic methods and approaches to teaching, which can stimulate and unlock learning potential, is recognised as influence of pluralist teaching. Pluralism in teaching is determined by various methods which can improve the quality of learning and make teaching more active, interesting, of high-quality and complete. The authors of this paper wanted to examine which teaching strate...