Conversational agents can be defined as computer programs which can have an animated face and/or body, understand natural language and respond in natural language to a user request. Pedagogic Conversational Agents are a subset specifically designed for educational purposes. Some of the existing conversational agents provide predefined answers irrespectively of the student model. In this paper, ...

In the previous chapters there was continual talk of: (i) possible structures of pedagogical situations with which it is noted that still other pedagogical structures might exist that are not yet noticed and that such structures are possibilities that can be actualized in pedagogic situations; (ii) pedagogical structures (with their essences) that are available to the participants in pedagogica...

Approaches to mathematics teaching which offer an alternative to stating facts and demonstrating procedures have been criticised for undermining the base for teachers’ sense of their own effectiveness. Data from an ethnographic study of the classroom practice of an experienced teacher of mathematics who has developed an inclusive (or emancipatory) pedagogic approach indicate that while establis...

We propose a new educational framework supporting learners in adoption of vocabulary and knowledge for various personalized and engaging pedagogic purposes. The most essential concepts of learning topic are linked based on the shortest connecting paths in hyperlink network of Wikipedia encyclopedia assisted with Wiktionary dictionary. In resulting pedagogic conceptual network learner traverses ...

We propose a new computational method for generating learning paths in educational texts. The method relies on forming vocabulary co-occurrence networks among articles of Wikipedia online encyclopedia and exploiting random explorations to generate route weighting parameters to form pedagogic co-occurrence networks. Motivated by previous research about scale-free small-world networks we suggest ...

Shrinkage estimation of the covariance matrix of asset returns was introduced to the finance profession several years ago. Since then, the approach has also received considerable attention in various life science studies, as a remedial measure for covariance matrix estimation with insufficient observations of the underlying variables. The approach is about taking a weighted average of the sampl...

One of the typical problems of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the explosive property of the parser and this is aggravated in an Intelligent Language Tutoring System (ILTS) because the grammar is unconstrained and admits even more analyses. NLP applications frequently incorporate techniques for selecting a preferred parse. Computational criteria, however, are insufficient for a pedagogic s...

Over the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in doctoral enrolments of Asian international students in Australian universities. While policies have been developed to meet the needs of these students, there seems to be some confusion around the terms internationalisation, globalisation, bi-cultural, inter-cultural, multi-cultural, and trans-cultural within these policies. In this paper,...

This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of pedagogic competence, professional personal competence social on performance MA Darussalam Katimoho Kedamean Gresik teachers. A quantitative approach was used in this with a population 31 people. The entire is as research sample, hereinafter referred respondent. results showed that had significant teacher Gresik, personality Gresik. Pedagog...

The study highlights 20-year experience of organizing international student conferences in foreign languages as a framework for holistic development academic communication skills. Conventional ESP syllabi suggest passive learning strategies, which replicate those general English courses. Students are offered pedagogic materials aim at reiterating the knowledge that instructors and textbooks pro...