iTalk2Learn has opened our eyes to new possibilities by highlighting the influence of emotion and speech in students’ learning. One of core differentiators at Whizz Education (Whizz) is the ability to engage students in the learning process using diverse, interactive content. The ability to detect and respond to students’ affective states will make the Whizz platform…
The use of technology in education is a highly topical issue. Many papers and articles have been written on the topic, displaying a wide variety of opinions. Lisa Nielsen, creator of a learning blog which has a huge number of followers, recently posted an article entitled ‘Stop saying “balance is key” when discussing technology’. In this…
Speech recognition is crucial for adapting to each child’s individual performance in iTalk2Learn. So what does it mean and how does it work? SAIL LABS Technology (Sail) is an Austrian SME providing automatic speech recognition (ASR) support within the iTalk2Learn platform. This blog post is the first one in a series of posts over the duration…
The translation of Fractions Tutor from English into German is almost complete! As well as translating the buttons and the exercises directly, the iTalk2Learn partners have given cultural adaptation a lot of attention in order to result in a truly effective German version. What sort of problems have been discovered and overcome? At first, Ruhr…
In Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are increasingly used as decision-making methods. Performance Prediction is one of their main subtasks whose final goal is to predict student performances and define the students’ competence in relation to specific skills. Adaptive sequencers take a student’s past performances into account in order to select…