BACKGROUND In 1992, the Royal College of General Practitioners instituted its fellowship in mental health education, which aimed to provide general practitioner tutors with the skills they need to help general practitioners manage mental illness in general practice. However, the emphasis of the fellowship on pedagogic education may discourage educators wishing to introduce andragogic teaching, ...

Active learning provides useful tools to reduce annotation costs without compromising classifier performance. However it traditionally views the supervisor simply as a labeling machine. Recently a new interactive learning paradigm was introduced that allows the supervisor to additionally convey useful domain knowledge using attributes. The learner first conveys its belief about an actively chos...

Collaboration by two grounded theory researchers, who each had developed a learning continuum instrument, led to the emergence of a new tool for assessment of learning powered mobility use. We undertook a rigorous process of comparative reanalysis that included merging, modifying, and expanding our previous research findings. A new instrument together with its facilitating strategies emerged in...

Over the past two decades researchers have increasingly become aware of the fact that language teaching can benefit from the field of discourse analysis and pragmatics. This paper analyzes the applicability of the so called problem-solution pattern to the teaching of writing. An experiment was conducted in order to test M. Hoey’s (2001) belief that the pattern can serve as a ready-made template...

The authors believe that well designed stories are one of the crucial factors in the engagement of the learner. This belief also applies to the design of interactive computer simulations, which historically have been thin on rich narrative. This paper explores the need for interactive narrative in educational management simulations and the role it plays in providing realistic settings for learn...

Bayesian inference has been used to model many aspects of cognition, and this paper aims to investigate memory using a computational perspective. If memories are costly, how should a learner allocate its resources and still make accurate predictions? We present a framework for an agent that seeks to learn the true weight of a coin after observing a fixed number of observations. The agent pays t...

This article discusses the integration of animated pedagogical agent into the development of cognitive tools based upon Scientific Inquiry Model for invoking learners’ cognitive conflict and fostering conceptual change. In this study, animated pedagogical agent acts as a catalyst while coaching the learner who interacts individually carrying out the hypothesize-observeexperiment activities. Stu...

In designing intelligent web based educational systems different student needs and preferences should be taken into consideration. Personalization of a system usually results in an increase in its effectiveness, which can be measured by the degree to which learning outcomes are achieved. However, taking into account the individual requirements of each learner and adjusting the system to their n...