The XXI Iberoamerican Congress on Higher Education in Computing (CIESC 2013) took place at Naiguatá, Venezuela, in October 2013. This event congregated many researchers and graduate students who had the opportunity to share their results and experiences in many different topics, including proposals of pedagogical activities, studies related to experiences in classes, and diverse aspects of the ...

While numerous research endeavors address the effects of pedagogical agents, the role of the agent's gender and its rapport behavior has been neglected. We hypothesize that a minimal amount of behavioral realism induced by display of rapport is necessary for any social effects to occur in human-computer interaction. Further, in line with results from STEM research on female role models, we assu...

Gamification is presented in the literature as a pedagogical innovation that may increase student engagement and enhance learning. This study explores students’ perceptions of a gamified learning intervention deployed in a large undergraduate module and a small postgraduate module. Given the dearth of previous empirical work, an exploratory approach was used. Focus groups were carried out to de...

In this memory we made the design of an indexing model for Arabic language and adapting standards for describing learning resources used (the LOM and their application profiles) with learning conditions such as levels education of students, their levels of understanding... the pedagogical context with taking into account the representative elements of the text, text's length,... in particular, ...

Pedagogical agent research seeks to exploit Reeves and Nass’s Media Equation, which holds that users respond to interactive media as if they were social actors. Investigations have tended to focus on the media used to realize the pedagogical agent, e.g., the use of animated talking heads and voices, and the results have been mixed. This paper focuses instead on the manner in which a pedagogical...

Students beliefs and attitudes towards risk taking can impact on their mathematics learning and performance. However, at present, risk is not established in the field of mathematics education. The challenge for mathematics teachers in developing their students’ risk taking dispositions is to choose appropriate activities and tools that match this concept and the learning needs of the students. ...

The online discussion forum is the main mode of interaction for Web-based learning. Existing online instructional management systems contain primitive discussion tools that do little to facilitate online interaction and collaborative discourse. This paper proposes the design of a new type of software – the TextWeaver – to meet these needs. In particular, we illustrate improved design in four a...

Children can learn new words in pedagogical contexts, but they may also infer reference using a variety of other information sources. Here we investigate children’s sensitivity to the placement of novel labels within discourse structure as a possible mechanism for word learning. In Experiment 1, children ages 2–6 years participated in word learning trials featuring two novel items and one novel...

Recent formal models of pedagogy (Shafto & Goodman, 2008) assume that teachers provide evidence likely to increase the learner’s belief in a target hypothesis. Thus in pedagogical contexts, the learner can infer that evidence is not merely true of the concept but representative of it. If for instance, a teacher demonstrates a single function of a toy, the learner should assume that only that fu...