We are now analysing the data which was collected during the summative evaluation of the italk2learn platform in the UK. We collected a huge amount of data and we are trying to make sense of it. The data includes information about student’s interaction with the learning platform and also their affective states while interacting with…
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.…
The IOE were invited to speak at the Shropshire Cross-Phase Mathematics Conference on Mathematical Reasoning in the New Curriculum last September. With over 80 teachers from primary and secondary schools attending, this was an ideal platform to share the iTalk2Learn project and the latest iteration of Fractions Lab. Thinking about teaching fractions The talk, focused on how students…
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…
The iTalk2Learn team has had a busy month, filled with meetings and conferences. Since things have been so busy, we thought we’d give you a break-down of the best bits! iTalk2Learn visits the beautiful city of Graz The beautiful Austrian city of Graz, a World Cultural Heritage Site, was the venue last week for some…