Recent rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with unlimited participants, makes
employing learning tools such as interactive simulations all but inevitable. Interactive …

Although worked-out examples play a key role in cognitive skill acquisition, research
demonstrates that students have various levels of meta-cognitive abilities for using …

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a set of intelligent tutoring agents
constructed to teach teams of students an authentic process of inquiry-driven modeling. The …

Promoting the development of students' scientific inquiry capabilities is a major learning
objective in science education. As a result, teachers require effective assessment …

Due to the open-ended nature of the interaction with Exploratory Learning Environments
(ELEs), it is not trivial to add mechanisms for providing adaptive support to users. Our goal is …

This article aims at discussing how Dynamic Decision Network (DDN) can be employed to
tackle the challenges in modeling temporally variable scientific inquiry skills and provision of …

There has been an increasing interest in employing decision-theoretic framework for learner
modeling and provision of pedagogical support in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs). Much …

While recent studies employ heuristic to support learners in scientific inquiry learning
environments, this study examined the theoretical and practical aspects of decision-theoretic …

Log data provide valuable insight into observable behavioural patterns, which could be
inferred to study a learner's cognitive processes, levels of motivation and levels of …

The process of conceptual change in learning, wherein a student's existing knowledge might
be changed or fundamentally replaced, is influenced by the affective states of the student's …