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New developments in the iTalk2Learn platform

The iTalk2Learn consortium have been working hard to develop the platform… So what’s new? A new language has been added, as well as new usability features iTalk2Learn is constantly supporting new features as part of the efforts to enhance the platform. In trying to be more open to the world, especially to users/students, the internationalisation…

iTalk2Learn intelligence platform

What is behind iTalk2Learn intelligence?

The aim of WP2 is to provide the iTalk2learn platform with intelligence that can guide students to maths mastery. But how can we make a machine intelligent? In order to answer the question, ‘how can we make a machine intelligent?’, we must first divide the problem into sub-problems. In the iTalk2Learn project, each sub-problem corresponds to a different component of the…

Wizard-of-Oz Pilot: St Peters School

27/1/13 The Institute of Education (IOE) has been working with schools to complete trials for the iTalk2Learn project. One of the schools that IOE is working with is St Peter’s School. IOE’s current work at the school is focussed upon piloting the Wizard-Of-Oz functionalities and getting feedback from the students about the platform overall. In…

Task-dependent and task-independent support

We are investigating how speech can be used in the learning platform to provide adaptive intelligent support within structured and exploratory activities. In particular, we are currently looking into how such support is able to respond to students’ emotions, deduced from speech. Emotions play a significant role in students’ learning behaviour – positive emotions can enhance learning, while negative emotions…