The relationship between emotions and learning was investigated by tracking the affective states that college students experienced while interacting with AutoTutor, an intelligent tutoring system with conversational dialogue. An emotionally responsive tutor would presumably facilitate learning, but this would only occur if learner emotions can be accurately identified. After a learning session ...

Except for the influential graduates, the content of the development core of universities needs to improve the scientific allocation of teacher resources, and the most relevant content to human resource of teacher is the salary incentive system. While the system related to performance appraisal system is the performance assessment system, so the sound and perfect performance appraisal system of...

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a tool called the Lexical Difficulty Filter (LDF) intended to help learners or teachers in selecting sentences appropriate to the level of students for English vocabulary learning. The LDF serves as a bridge between learner and information resource bank. It selects suitable sentences from the output of standard English corpus concordan...

Although educational data mining is a well-established field, it has not yet sought to provide serious, actionable intelligence that can be used by teachers to address bullying in a reasonable amount of time. This paper seeks to propose a system that will streamline the processing and storage of bullying data in social graph form so that it will be available to be mined by expert systems that c...

In this study, we have been developing a system called FIMA (Flexible Instructional Design Support Multi-Agent System) that dynamically supports teachers in designing instruction by facilitating their thinking ways according to the characteristics of those of expert teachers. In the present study, we focused on a support to facilitate teachers’ deep reflection and awareness of room for improvem...

This study seeks to explore perspectives of EFL teachers with regard the experience viewing experts’ videos and without guidance in an online platform how this is mirrored their reflective practice. Twelve pre-service watched eight expert teaching real ESL/EFL classes different contexts over world. The participants wrote journals, responded questions embedded a post-treatment questionnaire. Qua...

a Yuksel GOKTAS, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology. His research interests include Web 2.0, technology integration and usage, instructional design, problem-based learning, and research methods. Correspondence: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yuksel Goktas, Ataturk University, Kazim Karabekir Faculty of Education, Department of Compu...