Adapting to students’ affective states

How does iTalk2Learn enhance students’ learning experiences with feedback adaptation? We at Birkbeck and IOE are very interested in finding out how feedback can be adapted in line with students’ affective states. The task-independent support within the iTalk2Learn platform is able to tailor feedback types, as well as presenting feedback according to the affective state of the given student.…

fractions lab example

Testing the latest version of iTalk2Learn!

In this post, RUB outline findings from tests on the latest version of iTalk2Learn! One of the challenges in learning fractions is that you need to have both a good grasp of the concepts behind fractions, and the skills to calculate with fractions. What challenges are we trying to overcome? One concept that may be…

Implementation of the task-independent support

  What have we been working on? At Birkbeck College, we are currently implementing the task-independent support. In collaboration with the IOE, we have analysed the Wizard-of-Oz studies, using these results to inform the design of the task-independent support. What did the results show? Speech recognition from our project partner, Sail, is used to provide feedback based on…