Platform independent Java application to support interaction between an instructor, teaching assistants and students in a traditional on-campus course is developed. The TSI (teacher-student interaction) application includes a specialized Web server, an ordinary Web server, a mailer and a simple database. The HTTP protocol is used for all communications. Both teachers and students employ Web bro...

We present an eye-tracking study where we augment a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) video with the gaze information of the teacher. We tracked the gaze of a teacher while he was recording the content for a MOOC lecture. Our working hypothesis is that displaying the gaze of the teacher will act as cues in crucial moments of dyadic conversation, the teacher-student dyad, such as reference disam...

Approach Increase Student Achievement? teaching styles (teacher-centered instruction versus student-centered instruction) and examined whether teaching. I believe that student-centered learning arose in reaction to this scenario. Students who went It's a blend of both Teacher-and Student-centered approaches. Others argue that learner-centered is idealistic, unrealistic, and irresponsible. While...

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between behavioral and emotional engagement of Iranian EFL learners and their attachment to their teachers. Both teachers’ and students’ perceptions of their relationships and students’ engagement have been taken into account. Questionnaire data provided by 311 EFL students and 70 EFL  teachers was used to investigate the relation betwee...

and contexts. In G. Hanna & M. de Villiers (Eds), Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education (the 19th ICMI Study) (pp. 261-277). New York, Springer. ISBN: 9789400721289 Abstract. This chapter focuses on the teachers’ role in teaching proof and proving in the mathematics classroom. Within an over-arching theme of diversity (of countries, curricula, student age-levels, teachers’ knowledge), the ...

Students’ educational outcomes are predicted by their non-cognitive characteristics, including Big Five personality domains. While theories of teaching and learning suggest that teacher non-cognitive characteristics also impact student outcomes, such characteristics are rarely studied systematically. We propose that the Big Five personality domains of teachers are associated with teacher effect...

Agent technology has been suggested by experts to be a promising approach to fully extend Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). By using intelligent agents in an ITS architecture it is possible to obtain an individual tutoring system adaptive to the needs and characteristics of every student. The general architecture of the ITS proposed is formed by the three components that characterize an ITS –...