An intelligent tutoring system approach to teaching primary mathematics

Hennessy, Sara; O’Shea, Tim; Evertsz, Rick; Floyd, Ann

doi:10.1007/bf00310874

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“…To maximize motivation if somebody enjoys this activity and willingly engages in itthen making this a location for learning is a natural extension. West (Brown and Burton, 1978), Wunpus (Carr and Goldsterin (1977), Stansfield et al, 1976), and Shopping on Mars (Hennessy et al, 1989) are early examples of the use of gaming as a way of teaching. The user engages on a game that at the same time is teaching them some new skill.…”

Section: New Approaches To Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flexible Ontology-Driven Educational Apps and Social Media for Learners with a Disability

Nganji

Brayshaw

Gordon

2022

Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience

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This paper explores how to build ontology-driven learning systems from a flexible disability-aware mentality and augment them into a learning blend that embraces social media. The approach emphasizes the use of user centered flexible software in a blended approach to learning. The paper starts with a discussion of how learners learn, including their recent fascination with Apps and social media. The need to provide disability-aware personalization of the educational Apps that are developed is discussed. The emphasis is on designing learning systems for learners with disabilities rather than providing for them as an afterthought. The paper introduces social media as a way of facilitating and supporting e-learning. It notes the recent changes that have taken place in the use of social media. Taking e-learning as a case study the paper demonstrates how various models of e-learning, emphasizing flexible learning, can be enhanced linking back the whole while of integrating into disability-aware information systems. Some practical approaches to modeling the learner with ontologies are provided. Finally, caution is noted on how we have to use social media. We detail some of the potential problems and pitfalls that may be a contemporary consequence of using this media, then offer some suggestions and work rounds.

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Section: New Approaches To Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flexible Ontology-Driven Educational Apps and Social Media for Learners with a Disability

Nganji

Brayshaw

Gordon

2022

Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience

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“…The interaction is one of an explicit didactic coach with computer expertise informing a naïve and willing learner. (Hennessy et al 1989) used shopping as the cohesive story to support informal calculations for 8-12 year old school pupils. Essentially the task of the game was to go shopping.…”

Section: Background: Traditional Learning Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maximising Gain for Minimal Pain: Utilising Natural Game Mechanics

Gordon

Brayshaw

Grey

2013

Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer

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This paper considers the application of natural games mechanics within higher education as a vehicle to encourage student engagement and achievement of desired learning outcomes. It concludes with desiderata of features for a learning environment when used for assessment and a reflection on the gap between current and aspired learning provision. The context considered is higher (tertiary) education, where the aims are both to improve students' engagement with course content and also to bring about potential changes in the students' learning behaviour.Whilst traditional approaches to teaching and learning may focus on dealing with large classes, where the onus is frequently on efficiency and on the effectiveness of feedback in improving understanding and future performance, intelligent systems can provide technology to enable alternative methods that can cope with large classes that preserve the cost benefits. However, such intelligent systems may also offer improved learning outcomes via a personalised learning experience. This paper looks to exploit particular properties which emerge from the game playing process and seek to engage them in a wider educational context. In particular we aim to use game engagement and flow as natural dynamics that can be exploited in the learning experience.

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“…A comparison with Anderson's tutors shows that the concept of task-oriented 218 the project "shopping on Mars" developed under the lead of T. O'Shea (Hennessy, Evertsz, & Floyd, 1989). Nonetheless, the developers of intelligent tutorial systems tend to give as much scope as possible to the selfshaping of the learning process and to metacognitive activities.…”

Section: Characterization Of Task-oriented Itsmentioning

confidence: 99%