The effectiveness of intelligent tutoring systems at increasing learning might be improved if the systems were combined with collaborative activities that encouraged conceptual elaboration. We extended the Cognitive Tutor Algebra, an intelligent tutoring system for high-school mathematics, with a peer tutoring activity that was designed to encourage interaction, reflection, and accountability. ...

The interaction of economic agents is one of the most important elements in economic analyses. While most empirical studies investigate peer effects on objective final achievements, peer effects on subjective outcomes are inherently difficult to identify and estimate because these variables are prone to measurement errors. In particular, peer effects on students’ attitudes towards learning are ...

The study investigates in what ways the combination of self-assessment and collaborative peer assessment can support students’ creativeand critical-abilities, as well as providing opportunities for meta-cognitive learning. The study is informed by sociocultural theories research traditions and computer supported collaborative learning, CSCL. Data were collected from 22 student teachers peer ass...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking in a mobile learning environment has become a popular topic of research. One of the new emerging research ideas is on the ability to combine P2P network with server-based network to form a strong efficient portable and compatible network infrastructure. This paper describes a unique mobile network architecture, which reflects the on-campus students’ need for a mobi...

Designing an intelligent search method in peer-to-peer networks will significantly affect efficiency of the network taking into account sending a search query to nodes which have more probably stored the desired object. Machine learning techniques such as learning automaton can be used as an appropriate tool for this purpose. This paper tries to present a search method based on the learning aut...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained popularity in the past few years as a new form of open learning. Unlike assessment in classroom settings, the methodology to assess learning in open environments such as MOOCs represents a big challenge from the pedagogical perspective. Thus, there is a need to think about scalable assessment methods for accrediting and recognizing learning in MOO...

The main interest in this article is the students’ involvement in assessment as a part of growth towards self-directedness in learning. In order to enhance students’ development of autonomy in learning, a project involving “older” students as peer examiners for “younger” students was designed and carried out. Students in the 6th semester in a PBL-based Masters program of Medical biology partici...

Even though collaboration in peer learning has been shown to have a positive impact for students, there has been little research into collaborative peer learning dialogues. We analyze such dialogues in order to derive a model of knowledge co-construction that incorporates initiative and the balance of initiative. This model will be embedded in an artificial agent that will collaborate with stud...