Abstract

Pedagogic scholars think that when a student is stuck on a certain problem while learning, an instant tutoring assistant is very helpful to promote his/her study. Nevertheless, the teacher is not always available to answer students' question immediately. Moreover, it would be too time-consuming for a teacher to answer students' questions one by one, especially for a popular e-course where there are thousands of students and most of the students' questions are same-alike. In this paper, a Ubiquitous Virtual Tutoring Assistant System (UVTAS) is developed to provide instant assistants for students' learning problems. No matter where a student is, while he/she encounters or thinks about a learning problem, he/she can obtain immediate solutions via his/her mobile device, such as a cell-phone or a PDA. UVTAS not only provides a web-interface for mobile learners, it also incorporates a SMS-interface of question-answering to support mobile learners while Internet access is not available.

Citation

Wu, J.W., Tsou, Y.H., Chiou, C.K. & Tseng, J.C.R. (2007). Development of a Ubiquitous Virtual Tutoring Assistant System. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2007--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 1577-1585). Vancouver, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved May 24, 2022 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/25583/.

© 2007 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Keywords

• Computer Sciences
• Information Sciences
• internet access
• Students
• Teachers
• Tutoring