Inferring the Student�s state in the absence of the Teacher
- Gonçalves, Sérgio
- Carneiro, Davide
- Alfonso Cendón, Javier
- Fernández Riverola, Florentino
- Novais, Paulo
- Sierra Rodríguez, José Luis (ed. lit.)
- Dodero Beardo, Juan Manuel (ed. lit.)
- Burgos Solans, Daniel (ed. lit.)
Editorial: UNIR-Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
ISBN: 978-84-16125-41-8
Año de publicación: 2014
Páginas: 247-251
Congreso: Simposio Internacional de Informática Educativa (16. 2014. Salamanca)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
Traditionally, the Teacher-Student relationship is a close one. The student spends several hours of a day in the presence of the teacher and can talk, express doubts and pose questions. These doubts, or the general feeling towards the object of learning, are not only expressed explicitly but also implicitly. Indeed, the teacher is constantly, even if in an unconscious way, reading the state of the student in search for sings of doubt, frustration, stress or fatigue. This information is then used by the teacher to adapt their methods or to personalize their approach in function of each student. These aspects, intuitively central in education, become less efficient when learning takes place in a Virtual Environment. Indeed, the growth of online courses, in which the student and the teacher often never even meet, make learning more difficult for a number of reasons. In this paper we analyse these reasons and put forward an approach for inferring the student�s state that aims to minimize the effects of the absence of the teacher.