CATS 2008: Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems

The 4 th International Workshop on Culturally - Aware Tutoring Systems ( CATS 2013 )

This paper argues that there is a need for integrating cultural considerations into AIED systems in order to enhance interactions between systems and learners. The development of a conceptual model of intercultural communication, the challenges encountered and the major achievements are described.

The Fourth International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems

Third International Workshop on Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems (CATS2010) Workshop Co-Chairs:

Since e-learning systems are used by a wide variety of students with different characteristics, being adapted to user’s model and profile is an essential feature. Although there are several approaches for adaptive e-learning environments, they focus mainly on technological and/or networking aspects without taking into account other contextual aspects, such as cultural and pedagogical context. T...

Designing Culturally-aware Tutoring Systems with Mauoc, the More Advanced Upper Ontology of Culture

TEL systems are reaching societies where they were almost completely unavailable previously. This makes the importance of culture in TEL systems more salient as they need to accommodate an expanding cultural-geographical user base. Indeed it is known that culture has a huge impact on educational expectations and norms, and the way people efficiently learn. However, culture remains a difficult c...

Fifth International Workshop on Culturally - Aware Tutoring Systems

The design of educational technologies involves making decisions based in cultural assumptions and ideologies, and student learning may be improved when these design choices are made intentionally with the students’ own cultural context in mind. Despite this, the classroom systems in which these technologies are deployed have their own culturally-based contexts which are often at odds with the ...