Feedback from Multimodal Interactions in Learning Management Systems

iTalk2Learn partner, University of Hildesheim, organised a Workshop on Feedback from Multimodal Interactions in Learning Management Systems at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining A workshop on Feedback from Multimodal Interactions in Learning Management Systems took place at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining in London on 4th July. The workshop was organised by iTalk2Learn partner, University of Hildesheim.…

Collecting voice recordings from Whizzers in London

iTalk2Learn has opened our eyes to new possibilities by highlighting the influence of emotion and speech in students’ learning. One of core differentiators at Whizz Education (Whizz) is the ability to engage students in the learning process using diverse, interactive content. The ability to detect and respond to students’ affective states will make the Whizz platform…

5 reasons to use Fractions Lab

The use of technology in education is a highly topical issue. Many papers and articles have been written on the topic, displaying a wide variety of opinions. Lisa Nielsen, creator of a learning blog which has a huge number of followers, recently posted an article entitled ‘Stop saying “balance is key” when discussing technology’. In this…

Automatic speech recognition in the context of iTalk2Learn

Speech recognition is crucial for adapting to each child’s individual performance in iTalk2Learn. So what does it mean and how does it work? SAIL LABS Technology (Sail) is an Austrian SME providing automatic speech recognition (ASR) support within the iTalk2Learn platform. This blog post is the first one in a series of posts over the duration…

Emotional dectection and reasoning for student support

The consortium are working upon two aspects of the iTalk2Learn support mechanism: The emotion detector and the emotion reasoner. iTalk2Learn partners, Birkbeck College (BBK) and the Institute of Education (IOE), are continuing to analyse data that was collected from the Wizard-of-Oz studies that took place in March. These studies relate to the work on task-dependent…