Exploratory learning supports creative thinking, allowing learners to control their own learning process, whilst it provides them with help and guidance when necessary. This pedagogical approach emphasises learners’ active involvement in authentic activities/tasks that simulate real world processes and has been applied to several domains. In this paper we propose a framework for learner modelli...

This communication presents the genesis and the implementation of a teacher module, which is included in an Assistance Tool (AT). The teacher module is based on a teacher model for which we did a thorough analysis of the state of the art. The aim of the AT is to help a teacher to design pedagogical devices. Teachers can formulate their needs (assistance in the design) and the AT can relieve the...

Healthy living is one of the most important issues of modern education, especially for students of pedagogical specialties. The article discusses the need for this process, its appropriateness, the study of the problem in psychological and pedagogical literature and presents the results of the pedagogical experiment. The authors reveal the main components of health: physical, psychological and ...

Cascade-Correlation and BpTower networks are trained on pattern classiication tasks. The digits of four-digit integer numbers are sparsley coded and neural networks are trained to recognise the digit patterns of numbers divisible by ve, four and three. The performance of the decompositional rule extraction technique LAP is compared with that of the pedagogical technique RuleVI when extracting r...

writing has long been perceived as a core academic literacy skill necessary for students studying in American universities to achieve academic success, yet limited research has been conducted with regards to the actual summary writing tasks that L2 writers encounter across the curriculum. To fill in this gap, this qualitative study examined the summary writing experiences and practices of a gro...

This paper presents an engineering process in order to build pedagogical "dispositives" on Web 2.0 applications. This engineering process relies on three tasks: modeling the "dispositive", defining its context and building it. The main feature of our process is to wrap the building functionalities of a Web Application by Web Services. To consume these services, we use the Model Driven Engineeri...

Interactive Pedagogical Dramas (IPD) are compelling interactive stories that have didactic purpose. Autonomous agents realize the characters in these dramas. Their roles may be to portray humans facing overwhelming, emotionally-charged difficulties. This challenges the agents to interact with a depth and subtlety that is consistent with human behavior in difficult, stressful situations. To addr...

A common assumption in machine learning is that training data are i.i.d. samples from some distribution. Processes that generate i.i.d. samples are, in a sense, uninformative—they produce data without regard to how good this data is for learning. By contrast, cognitive science research has shown that when people generate training data for others (i.e., teaching), they deliberately select exampl...

In this demonstration, we describe a scenario developed in the EMOTE project [2]. The overall goal of the EMOTE project is to develop an empathic robot tutor for 11-13 year old school students in an educational setting. The pedagogical domain we demonstrate here is to assist students in learning and testing their map-reading skills typically learned as part of the geography curriculum in school...

The aim was to describe, from the newly registered nurses’ perspective, specific events when using their pedagogical knowledge in their everyday clinical practice. The design was qualitative and the critical incident technique was used. Data were collected via interviews with ten newly registered nurses. Two categories emerged in the analyses. The first category was “Pedagogical methods in theo...