First summative evaluation trial in Germany

After a month of international conferences and dissemination activities, RUB’s main goal in June was to get ready for conducting the first summative evaluation trial in a German school. Together with the school, we determined that July would be a good time in the fractions curriculum for students to learn with the iTalk2Learn program. July…

italk2learn member presenting project at conference

iTalk2Learn crosses the European borders

What’s behind the correct evaluation of Machine Learning based sequencers? The iTalk2Learn consortium has recently been discussing the correct evaluation of Machine Learning based sequencers. Such evaluation requires large data availability, large-scale experiments and consideration of different evaluation measures. Such constraints make the construction of ad-hoc Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) unfeasible and impose early integration in already existing…

Maths-Whizz Interactive Board with Fractions Lab integration

Integrating Fractions Lab within Maths-Whizz

Whizz is currently in discussions with other iTalk2Learn partners around the possible integration of Fractions Lab into Maths-Whizz’s set of Teachers’ Resources. Why integrate Fractions Lab with Maths-Whizz? This effort would serve two purposes: Support further research and development of Fractions Lab for the benefit of iTalk2Learn Explore the viability of Fractions Lab as a…

fractions lab example

Testing the latest version of iTalk2Learn!

In this post, RUB outline findings from tests on the latest version of iTalk2Learn! One of the challenges in learning fractions is that you need to have both a good grasp of the concepts behind fractions, and the skills to calculate with fractions. What challenges are we trying to overcome? One concept that may be…