Assisting students with argumentation plans when solving problems in CSCL

Ariel Monteserin; Silvia Schiaffino; Analía Amandi

Computers & Education Vol. 54, No. 2 (February 2010) pp. 416–426

In CSCL systems, students who are solving problems in group have to negotiate with each other by exchanging proposals and arguments in order to resolve the conflicts and generate a shared solution. In this context, argument construction assistance...

Language: English

eTeacher: Providing personalized assistance to e-learning students

Silvia Schiaffino; Patricio Garcia; Analia Amandi

Computers & Education Vol. 51, No. 4 (December 2008) pp. 1744–1754

In this paper we present eTeacher, an intelligent agent that provides personalized assistance to e-learning students. eTeacher observes a student’s behavior while he/she is taking online courses and automatically builds the student’s profile. This...

Language: English

Evaluating Bayesian networks’ precision for detecting students’ learning styles

Patricio Garcia; Analia Amandi; Silvia Schiaffino; Marcelo Campo

Computers & Education Vol. 49, No. 3 (November 2007) pp. 794–808

Students are characterized by different learning styles, focusing on different types of information and processing this information in different ways. One of the desirable characteristics of a Web-based education system is that all the students can...