Expert summarizers employ a number of strategies to produce summaries. Teachers need to identify which strategies are used by students to help them improve their summary writing. However, the task is time consuming. This paper reports on our effort to develop an algorithm to identify the summarizing strategies employed by students using summary sentence decomposition. The summarizing strategies...

Medicine is a learned profession, but clinical practice is above all a matter of performance, in the best and deepest sense of the word. Because music is, at its core, a pure distillate of real-time performance, musicians are in an excellent position to teach us about better ways to become and remain expert performers in health care and ways for our teachers and mentors to help us do that. Ten ...

We report on a teaching experiment carried on in some high schools of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. Starting with a two-hours talk on Artificial Intelligence and games proposed two years ago, the project went on with a short course on modeling with Answer Set Programming for students last year. In the current third year a course addressed to (high school) teachers has been organized. The ai...

Learning in groups allows students to develop academic and social competencies but requires the presence of a human teacher that is actively guiding the group. In this paper we combine data-mining and visualization tools to support teachers’ understanding of learners activities in an inquiry based learning environment. We use supervised learning to recognize salient states of activity in the gr...

Abstract Simulation applications are effective tools in medical education. They can explain the function of individual physiological systems in a very visual and interactive way. Development of simulation applications requires cooperation of many domain experts. Teachers design intended educational scenarios, physiological modellers create simulation models, computer graphic designers designs v...

In this paper, we present the architecture of a Webbased Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) for teaching high school teachers how to use new technologies. It offers course units covering the needs of users with different knowledge levels and characteristics. It tailors the presentation of the educational material to the users’ diverse needs by using AI techniques to specify each user’s model as ...

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Professional development for schools and institutions is often ineffective, and costly (Gates Foundation, 2014). When teachers are permitted to choose their own professional development, their satisfaction and adoption of new pedagogies increases. Due to the nature of personal preferences and a focus on individualized professional development to increase teacher learning, multiple pedagogies wi...