With the aim of storing learner corpora as well as information about the Basque language students who wrote the texts, two different but complementary databases were created: ERREUS and IRAKAZI. Linguistic and technical information (error description, error category, tools for detection/correction...) will be stored in ERREUS, while IRAKAZI will be filled in with psycholinguistic information (e...

In this paper we aim to describe the process by which our personalised web-based collaborative teaching/learning methodology (CECIP – Collaboration – Evaluation – Critical thinking – Individual assessment – learner Profile) evolved originating from Vygotsky’s theory and based on the (C) collaborative construction of student’s knowledge, (E) developing evaluation and assessment skills, (C) devel...

This article presents an autonomous guide agent that can observe a community of learners on the web, interpret the learners’ inputs, and then assess their sharing. The goal of this agent is to find a reliable helper ~tutor or other learner! to assist a learner in solving his task. Despite the growing number of Internet users, the ability to find helpers is still a challenging and important prob...

Vygotskij’s educational concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) calls for an adaptation of learning activities to the present state of learner’s knowledge and abilities. At the same time, Vygotskij’s educational model includes a strong bent towards social and collaborative learning. In practice, a tight integration between personalized and collaborative learning is called for. Along t...

Due to the increase in the amount of data gathered every day in the real world problems (e.g., bioinformatics), there is a need for inductive learning algorithms that can incrementally process large amounts of data that is being accumulated over time in physically distributed, autonomous data repositories. In the incremental setting, the learner gradually refines a hypothesis (or a set of hypot...

Distance language learners require new kinds of skills, motivation and commitment to work effectively in a learning setting that is largely new and unfamiliar to them, and which is likely to have a direct impact on their development and use of learning strategies (Oxford & BurryStock, 1995; White, 2004). This paper is based on a study of a group of Chinese students learning English at a distanc...