The article describes the Mentor Academy Program (MAP), a model for involving mentors as an integral part in the education of the gifted/talented and for training the gifted/talented to be mentors. (SBH)

Summarizes research activities concerning FITS, a Framework for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, and discusses the major results obtained thus far. Topics include system architecture; domain independent framework; student model module; expertise module; tutoring strategies; and a model of tutor's decision making, including knowledge sources and…

NEC America prepares its employees to train severely disabled co-workers. Three characteristics of the training are (1) the right type and amount of assistance; (2) measurement of degrees of learning; and (3) reinforcement of what has been learned. (SK)

Advocates the poststructuralist-informed writing center conference in which considerations and discussions of the ideologically motivated nature of writing are more easily brought to the fore. Urges the writing center tutor to explicitly question and solicit a justification of the ideology which informs students' essays. (SR)

Proposes the notion of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) as design in order to engage ITS development with more rigor. Topics include engineering design versus ITS design; systems approach; design as problem solving; a hierarchy of paradigms; the emergence of an agent-theoretic approach; and the need for an ITS design notation. (Author/LRW)

Describes a customized tutoring program devised for a manufacturing industry worker. Identifies the following keys to success: negotiating course content and structure, ensuring transfer of skills between work and home, and maintaining a relaxed learning environment. (SK)

Discusses course-oriented intelligent tutoring environments and the role of the teacher, and describes the development of WITS (Whole-course Intelligent Tutoring System), an expert system that teaches a course on solid state electronics independently of a human teacher. Includes results of student evaluations of WITS. (LRW)

As a first step towards implementing a human language teacher, we have developed a new template-based on-line ICALL (intelligent computer assisted language learning) system capable of automatically diagnosing learners' free-format translated inputs and returning error contingent feedback. The system architecture we have adopted allows language…

There is a growing literature that has examined academics' approaches to, and accounts of, teaching. One aspect that has not been examined is academics' perceptions of particular teaching methods. In this study, academics' accounts of tutorials at the University of Oxford were used as an "ideal type" in order to examine whether there is…

Inspired by his ability to teach algebra to low-income and mostly African American and Latino urban students--and have them outscore the state averages for high-income and Caucasian students on standardized tests--Kadhir "Raja" Rajagopal, the 2011 California Teacher of the Year, provides you with a model for teaching that unleashes the…

This volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to situations where second, third and other additional languages are used. A number of different aspects are considered, including how linguistic systems develop over time through social interaction, how participants 'do' language learning and teaching in classroom and everyday…

State and local educators encountered both opportunities and obstacles in their first year of implementing the School Improvement Grants (SIGs) funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). In 2009, the ARRA, better known as the economic stimulus package, provided $3 billion for SIGs to help reform persistently low-achieving…

In the area of technology-enhanced learning reusability and interoperability issues essentially influence the productivity and efficiency of learning and authoring solutions. There are two basic approaches how to overcome these problems--one attempts to do it via standards and the other by means of the Semantic Web. In practice, these approaches…

This article presents GISMO, a novel, open source, graphic student-tracking tool integrated into Moodle. GISMO represents a further step in information visualization applied to education, and also a novelty in the field of learning management systems applications. The visualizations of the tool, its uses and the benefits it can bring are…

There are a significant number of studies in the literature stressing the important role of teacher immediacy behaviors on learners' perceptions of social presence and satisfaction in open and distance learning environments. Yet, those studies were conducted in different open and distance education institutions than the current example of which…