ERIC Number: EJ807634
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Publication Date: 2008-Dec
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eTeacher: Providing Personalized Assistance to E-Learning Students
Schiaffino, Silvia; Garcia, Patricio; Amandi, Analia
Computers & Education, v51 n4 p1744-1754 Dec 2008
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 profile comprises the student's learning style and information about the student's performance, such as exercises done, topics studied, exam results. In our approach, a student's learning style is automatically detected from the student's actions in an e-learning system using Bayesian networks. Then, eTeacher uses the information contained in the student profile to proactively assist the student by suggesting him/her personalized courses of action that will help him/her during the learning process. eTeacher has been evaluated when assisting System Engineering students and the results obtained thus far are promising. (Contains 3 tables and 9 figures.)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Distance Education, Online Courses, Profiles, Learning Processes, College Students, Engineering, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Computer Software, Evaluation
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