CIRCLE Spring seminar series starts Monday, Jan. 26

[Peter Brusilovsky]

The first CIRCLE Spring seminar series speaker is Roger Dannenberg,
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, who will review
his work on multimedia-based tutoring systems.

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>From Piano Tutor to Just-In-Time Lectures:
Computer-Based Learning in Theory and Practice

Roger B. Dannenberg
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Monday, January 26, 1998, 12 noon,
Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), 3939 O'Hara Street
2nd floor auditorium.


Abstract: The Piano Tutor is an early multimedia-based, conversational,
intelligent tutor.  It works well, but like many ITS systems, it was
expensive to create and maintain, and survives only as a demonstration
system. In creating Piano Tutor, we invented ways to represent and
design a curriculum at a very detailed level and thought that this might
facilitate the construction of low-cost ITS systems. Just-In-Time
Lectures, my current project, provide a low-cost way to capture content.
In contrast to Piano Tutor, Just-In-Time Lectures are not intelligent,
not expensive, and they are finding increasing use for practical
distance learning. I will conclude by describing my vision of a system
that incorporates some of the best attributes of Piano Tutor and
Just-In-Time Lectures.


Contact information:

Please, contact Roger Dannenberg directly (Roger.Dannenberg at cs.cmu.edu)

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