Abstract
Building effective learning tools is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the tools' audience: the learners. This paper focuses on accounting for the learners' spatial ability as well as providing an additional help channel in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. We modified ERMTutor, a constraint-based tutor that teaches logical database design, to provide not only textual feedback messages, but also messages containing combinations of text and pictures, in accordance with the multimedia theory of learning [1]. We also added a question-asking module which enables students to ask freeform questions. Results of preliminary studies performed show a promising indication for further explorations. We plan to use these results as the basis for another evaluation study in early 2007.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education |
| Place of Publication | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Publisher | Artificial Intelligence in Education |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference, NZCSRSC 2007 - Hamilton, New Zealand Duration: 10 Apr 2007 → 13 Apr 2007 |
Conference
| Conference | 5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference, NZCSRSC 2007 |
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| Country/Territory | New Zealand |
| City | Hamilton |
| Period | 10/04/07 → 13/04/07 |