In this paper we review the contribution of our original work titled “Simulating Instructional
Roles Through Pedagogical Agents” published in the International Journal of Artificial …

Since its debut in the field of education nearly three decades ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
has been considered as a powerful tool to facilitate new paradigms for instructional design …

In this chapter we synthesize the pedagogical agent literature published during 2005–2011.
During these years, researchers have claimed that pedagogical agents serve a variety of …

Practice in the role of the teacher is an essential part of teacher education, however
professional experience placements are becoming increasingly difficult to find …

Disseminating efficacious psychological treatments remains a challenge for researchers and
clinicians. In the case of social anxiety disorder (SAD), Social Effectiveness Therapy for …

Background The professional knowledge of pre‐service teachers is highly important for
effective and successful teaching. In recent years, many research groups have been …

Chatbots emulate human dialogue to provide a more intuitive user interface to applications
or simply provide entertainment. Chatbots rely on technology to function and new and …

In this study, a follow-up analysis of the data reported in Lin et al.(Learn Media Technol. doi:
10.1080/17439884.2011. 629660, 2011), we investigated the relationship between student …

This chapter explores the relationship between student preference in virtual environment
and learning outcomes. It talks about an instrument used to gauge student class-based …

Text mining (TM) and computational linguistics (CL) are computationally intensive fields
where many tools are becoming available to study large text corpora and exploit the use of …