These four Pedagogical Patterns are intended to extend the Feedback [5] and Active Learning [2] collections within the Pedagogical Patterns Project. The ideas here have been gathered from observing expert teachers and the descriptions of what they do.

This paper describes a small experimental study where pedagogical agents (avatars) are added to voice-over-slide learning materials. Four different agent behaviours are tested: Avatar A performs all the upper-body gestures of the lecturer; Avatar B is animated using few random gestures in order to create a natural presence, but one that is unrelated to the speech; Avatar C only performs the lec...

Humans draw on their stereotypic beliefs to make assumptions about others. Even though prior research has shown that individuals respond socially to media, there is little evidence with regards to learners stereotyping and categorizing pedagogical agents. This study investigated whether learners stereotype a pedagogical agent as being knowledgeable or not knowledgeable and how this acuity influ...

We present results of a randomized controlled study that compared different types of affective support messages delivered by pedagogical agents. Results suggest that using a character that is empathic and emphasizes the malleability of intelligence and the importance of effort provides useful results in student learning, while reducing boredom and anxiety. Emphasizing success and failure (“That...

In this communication we propose to expose the main pedagogical ressource description standards limitations for the description of raw ressources, through the scope of pedagogical indexation of texts for language teaching. To do so we will resort to the testimony of language teachers reagarding their practices. We will then propose a model supposed to exceed these limitations. This model is art...

We describe research on data-drive refinement and evaluation of a probabilistic model of student learning for an educational game on number factorization. The model is to be used by an intelligent pedagogical agent to improve student learning during game play. An initial version of the model was designed based on teachers’ advice and subjective parameter settings. Here we illustrate data-driven...

The paper presents SmartEgg, an animated pedagogical agent developed for SQLT-Web, an intelligent SQL tutor on the Web. It has been shown in previous studies that pedagogical agents have a significant motivational impact on students. Our hypothesis was that even a very simple and constrained agent, like SmartEgg, would enhance learning. We report on an evaluation study that confirmed our hypoth...

In this article, I explore the question of what it means to create a science for all from the vantage point of urban homeless children. I draw on the work of critical and feminist scholars in science and education, as well as my own teaching and research with urban homeless children, to question how inclusive the science education community is in its efforts to understand the margins of science...

A computer-based training tool was developed through a collaborative design process. The tool allows trainee radiologists to access a large number of suspicious lesions. The tool employs a certainty-based scoring system in which trainees‟ responses are scored not just as right or wrong but according to their confidence. Different approaches to providing trainees with feedback were considered: o...

In this article students’ success, their problems in the process of learning pedagogical knowledge, reasons of the low results, increasing of quality of knowledge with the help of role – situations at the pedagogical lessons are considered. There are different approaches to define the quality of future teachers’ pedagogical knowledge in scientific literature. During the investigation significan...