The researchers in the field of cognitive science and learning science suggest that the teaching activity induces the elaborative and meaningful learning (Chi, et al, 2001). Teachable agent (TA) is a modified version of traditional intelligent tutoring system that assigns a role tutor to teach the agent. To validate the effectiveness of the specific TA, KORI (KORea university Intelligent agent)...

This paper describes one university’s approach to improving the quality of teaching and learning at the institutional level, based on the premise of improving the design of curriculum rather than focusing on the skills of teachers as such. The paper describes the process by which university-wide principles of curriculum design were defined and agreed, as well as the parallel campaigns needed to...

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Preparing and Supporting University Physics Educators.] We present a newly validated and refined framework, TA-PIVOT (TA Practices In and Views Of Teaching), for examining how physics TAs talk about and how they engage in physics teaching. This work builds upon and extends prior efforts to characterize instructors’ beliefs and practices by examin...

This paper describes one university’s approach to improving the quality of teaching and learning at the institutional level, based on the premise of improving the design of curriculum rather than focusing on the skills of teachers as such. The paper describes the process by which university-wide principles of curriculum design were defined and agreed, as well as the parallel campaigns needed to...

In today's complex health care system, leader behaviors are critical for all nurses. The undergraduate teaching assistant (TA) program empowers students to develop leadership behaviors through a collaborative mentoring model. This successful program enables undergraduate students to collaborate with faculty and graduate TAs in co-teaching large classes. The collaborative mentoring, structured c...

This paper presents a rule-based approach to natural language question answering that can be easily implemented for any domain. We discuss the framework in the context of a National Science Foundation funded project Universal Virtual Laboratory (UVL). UVL is a virtual electrical engineering (EE) laboratory for able and disabled individuals to construct, simulate and understand the characteristi...

This paper presents a rule-based approach to natural language question answering that can be easily implemented for any domain. We discuss the framework in the context of a National Science Foundation funded project Universal Virtual Laboratory (UVL). UVL is a virtual electrical engineering (EE) laboratory for able and disabled individuals to construct, simulate and understand the characteristi...

Usually one or more Teaching Assistants (TAs) are working onsite to help students during discussion sections, during office hours, or with lab assignments. However, in an environment where distance learning is used, an onsite TA might not be available. In this paper we propose a Remote TA Support System to provide anywhere-and-anytime TA assistance. The system provides both the students and the...