Motivating Learners by Nurturing Animal Companions: My-Pet and Our-Pet

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 125, Issue , 2005, Pages 136-143

  Chen, Zhi Hong ^a   Deng, Yi Chan ^a   Chou, Chih Yueh ^b   Chan, Tak Wai ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Center for Science and Technology of Learning

Author keywords

learning companion; motivation; open student model

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; MOTIVATION;

ANIMAL COMPANIONS; CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT; COMPETITIVE GAMES; LEARNING COMPANIONS; OPEN STUDENT MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PILOT STUDIES; SELF REFLECTION; SIMPLE++; TEAM MEMBERS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79951909845     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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