eTeacher: Providing personalized assistance to e-learning students

Computers and Education

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1744-1754

  Schiaffino, Silvia ^a,b   Garcia, Patricio ^a,b   Amandi, Analia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Distance learning; Intelligent agents; Intelligent tutoring systems; Learning styles

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

DISTANCE LEARNING; E-LEARNING SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING STUDENTS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS; LEARNING PROCESSES; LEARNING STYLES; ON-LINE COURSES; PERSONALIZED COURSES; STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE;

TEACHING;

EID: 49649096054     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.05.008     Document Type: Article

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