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ACT: a web-based adaptive communication tool

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Agoritsa Gogoulou,

Evangelia Gouli,

Maria Grigoriadou,

Maria SamarakouAuthors Info & Claims

CSCL '05: Proceedings of th 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years!

Pages 180 - 189

Published: 30 May 2005 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a web-based adaptive communication tool, called ACT. ACT supports and guides the learners' communication/collaboration by implementing the structured dialogue either through sentence openers or communication acts. The scaffolding sentence templates are adapted according to the cognitive skills addressed by the learning activity, the model of collaboration followed and the educational tool used. The learners have the possibility to personalize the communication/ collaboration process by enriching the provided set of the scaffolding sentence templates with the desired ones and to monitor their debate in a visual graphical representation form through the Dialogue Tree. The first empirical results are encouraging regarding the predetermined set of the scaffolding sentence templates and their proper use, the adaptation framework supported, the provided facilities and the coherence of the dialogue.

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Baghaei NMitrovic A(2006)A constraint-based collaborative environment for learning UML class diagramsProceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems10.1007/11774303_18(176-186)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11774303_18

ACT: a web-based adaptive communication tool
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Human-centered computing

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CSCL '05: Proceedings of th 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years!

May 2005

797 pages

ISBN:0805857826

Conference Chair:
Tak-Wai Chan
National Central University

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Chunghwa Telecom
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Ministry of Education, Taiwan
National Science Council, Taiwan
National Program of Science and Technology for e-Learning, Taiwan
National Science Foundation, USA
G1:1 -- Global Researcher Network on 1:1 Digital Learning
AClass Learning Technology Inc.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers
International Society of the Learning Sciences
Research Center for Science and Technology for Learning, National Central University, Taiwan
Taipei City Government, Taiwan

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Published: 30 May 2005

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Baghaei NMitrovic A(2006)A constraint-based collaborative environment for learning UML class diagramsProceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems10.1007/11774303_18(176-186)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2006
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