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Chapter and Conference Paper
C \(^{2}\) Tutor: Hel** People Learn to Avoid Present Bias During Decision Making
Procrastination can harm many aspects of life, including physical, mental, or financial well-being. It is often a consequence of people’s tendency to prefer immediate benefits over long-term rewards (i.e., pre...
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Understanding the Effect of Cohesion in Academic Writing Clarity Using Education Data Science
Presenting complex information in a clear and concise manner in an academic paper is often considered a daunting task for many students. In particular, writing an abstract that could effectively convey the hig...
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Complex Learning Environments: Tensions in Student Perspectives that Indicate Competing Values
Advances in software have enabled an increase in the complexity of online learning environments (OLE)
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Collaborating with Mature English Language Learners to Combine Peer and Automated Feedback: a User-Centered Approach to Designing Writing Support
300,000 immigrants move to Canada each year in search of better economic opportunities, and many have limited English language skills. Improving written literacy of newcomers can enhance education, employment,...
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Correction to: SoundHunters: Increasing Learner Phonological Awareness in Plains Cree
The chapter was inadvertently published with errors in the reference numbers 28 and 34. The authors’ names of the cited contributions were corrected.
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SoundHunters: Increasing Learner Phonological Awareness in Plains Cree
Indigenous languages have been dying out due to colonial practices that limited and even punished their use. For this reason, there is a need to support the maintenance and revitalization of these languages as...
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The Effect of Personality and Course Attributes on Academic Performance in MOOCs
Predicting academic performance has been a topic of research for years, with different factors having been used to predict student grades. One of those factors is personality, with little work having focused ...
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PsychOut! a Mobile App to Support Mental Status Assessment Training
Learning about how to assess a patient’s mental health status is traditionally performed through lectures. While this conveys information, it does not situate the material in real contexts which promotes know...
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Student Preferences for Visualising Uncertainty in Open Learner Models
User preferences for indicating uncertainty using specific visual variables have been explored outside of educational reporting. Exploring students’ preferred method to indicate uncertainty in open learner mod...
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Evaluating the Effect of Uncertainty Visualisation in Open Learner Models on Students’ Metacognitive Skills
Self-assessment is widely used in open learner models (OLMs) as a metacognitive process to enhance students’ self-regulated learning. Yet little research has investigated the impact of the visualisation when t...
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Interactive Event: Enabling Vocabulary Acquisition while Providing Mobile Communication Support
We have developed an adaptive communication support tool that also supports vocabulary acquisition. This tool is called VocabNomad; it is one of the few mobile assisted language learning tools that aims to sup...
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Mobile Adaptive Communication Support for Vocabulary Acquisition
Language learners are often isolated because of their inability to communicate. Adaptive mobile communication support tools could be used to scaffold both their interaction with others and their vocabulary acq...
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ProTutor: Historic Open Learner Models for Pronunciation Tutoring
Acquiring proper pronunciation is difficult for second language learners. We built a Russian pronunciation tutor, called ProTutor, that uses open learner models (OLMs). Of particular interest is ProTutor’s “hi...
