This paper examines a project which utilises a virtual dental clinic and a fictitious eight year old patient "Matthew" to situate students within an authentic learning environment. A case is presented which requires the student to examine clinical information about Matthew in the form of patient history, clinical slides, radiographs and expert information from teachers, psychologists and an end...

In this research, a prototype rule-based expert system for guiding high school students in selecting suitable undergraduate university majors is designed and developed. The system can also be used in the presence of academic advisors and teachers while advising their students to select the proper majors from the available options. The system is supported with an object-oriented database, and th...

REVERIE (REal and Virtual Engagement in Realistic Immersive Environments) is a research project with the aim to build a safe, collaborative, online environment which brings together realistic inter-personal communication and interaction. The REVERIE platform integrates cutting-edge technologies and tools, such as social networking services, spatial audio adaptation techniques, tools for creatin...

The ability to act in multiple environments and transfer previous knowledge to new situations can be considered a critical aspect of any intelligent agent. Towards this goal, we define a novel method of multitask and transfer learning that enables an autonomous agent to learn how to behave in multiple tasks simultaneously, and then generalize its knowledge to new domains. This method, termed “A...

Understanding how students learn engineering design concepts and the subsequent instructional interventions that are directed to improve their performance is also contingent on understanding how experts in the various engineering disciplines solve engineering problems. Naturally, a part of the engineering and technology educators’ research agenda is aimed at gaining a better insight of how stud...

Materials and methods The study was conducted in Alberta between November 2009 and January 2010. 105 elementary and secondary school teachers, school administrators, educational assistants, custodial staff, and volunteers participated in the study. The training program was approximately 1-hour in duration and covered knowledge of anaphylaxis, skills of how to use an auto-injector, and preventio...

At present information technology plays important roles in teaching and learning activities. E-learning systems have the potential to reduce operating costs and train more people. Teachers and students do not have to be in the same place at the same time and the students have the opportunity to perform self-studies and self-evaluation using e-tutorial systems. E-learning systems could be consid...

At present information technology plays important roles in teaching and learning activities. E-learning systems have the potential to reduce operating costs and train more people. Teachers and students do not have to be in the same place at the same time and the students have the opportunity to perform self-studies and self-evaluation using e-tutorial systems. E-learning systems could be consid...

This article describes the development of Open Educational Resources (OER) through an expert system (SE) to supplement the teaching-learning process, and thus fulfill the main requirements for easy addition to OER repositories. The development process is based on the technological model for the creation of OER proposed in 2014. These resources support learning and teaching practice increasing t...

This paper presents ESCurr, a software application based on expert systems (ES) that assists teachers to improve the curriculum of introductory computer science courses in K12 education. ESCurr is a Web application that can be customized through the selection of specific inquiries related to the learning progress that would be appropriate to any group of students with certain characteristics ac...