Educators’ perspectives on risk factors for learner-on-learner bullying

A Novel Method for Learner Assessment Based on Learner Annotations

Assessment is one of the most essential parts of any instructive learning process which aims to evaluate a learner’s knowledge about learning concepts. In this work, a new method for learner assessment based on learner annotations is presented. The proposed method exploits the M-BLEU algorithm to find the most similar reference annotations and then the learner annotation will be processed furth...

Using Learner Focus of Attention to Detect Learner Motivation Factors

This paper presents a model for pedagogical agents to use the learner’s attention to detect motivation factors of the learner in interactive learning environments. This model is based on observations from human tutors coaching students in on-line learning tasks. It takes into account the learner’s focus of attention, current task, and expected time required to perform the task. A Bayesian model...

Exploring Participative Learner Modelling and Its Effects on Learner Behaviour

The educational benefits of involving learners as active players in the learner modelling process have been an important motivation for research on this form of learner modelling, henceforth referred to as participative learner modelling. Such benefits, conceived as the promotion of learners’ reflection on and awareness of their own knowledge, have in most cases been asserted on the grounds of ...

Learner English on Computer

This is a collection of papers edited by the founder and coordinator of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), which brings together written texts produced by non-native speakers (NNSs) of English from a variety of European mother-tongue backgrounds. The book is divided into three parts, each composed of several papers: the first part is devoted to a general outline of the constitu...

On Annotating Learner Corpora