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The Journal of Educational Technology & Society, Vol. 13, No. 1 has a new edition out on the topic of Intelligent Tutoring Systems. From the editorial: Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are meant to provide useful tutoring services for assisting the student. These services include coaching, assisting, guiding, helping, and tracking the student during problem-solving situations. [...] Tapscott, D. and Williams, A. (2010) Innovating the 21st century university: It’s Time Educause Review, Vol. 45, No. 1 First of all, thanks to both Burkhard Lehmann and Clayton Wright for directing me to this article. I had however seen it myself a couple of weeks ago, and have hesitated to respond to it, for reasons [...] Regular readers will know that I believe that ‘real’ engineering is one of the tougher areas for e-learning, because of the need for hands-on experience with equipment and materials (see ‘Can you teach ‘real’ engineering at a distance?’). Simulations and animations are obvious uses, but often expensive and difficult to develop. So I was interested to [...] And the answer is: it all depends! As usual with human behaviour, it depends on the context. Ophir, E., Nass, C., and Wagner, A. (2009) Cognitive control in media multitaskers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 37 I don’t want to oversimplify the results from this careful [...] Lopes, V. (2008) Course Management Systems and Campus-Based Learning North York ON: Seneca College One of the rare research reports that looks at the use of a learning management system for campus-based teaching, and its impact on students’ learning. The main finding was that faculty used the LMS mainly for providing course information, and very little for [...] |
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