Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, March 07, 2002

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/062/learning/When_tutors_and_computers_are_inseperable+.shtml

When tutors and computers are inseperable
Globe Staff, Globe Correspondent, 3/3/2002

Beverly Park Woolf directs the Center for Knowledge Communication and the Center for Computer-based Instructional Technology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her research focuses on ''intelligent'' multimedia tutoring systems. Currently more than a third of the undergraduates in 10 departments at UMass-Amherst do electronic homework using the Online Web-based Learning (OWL) system developed by her group. Woolf, who has doctorates in computer science and education, is especially interested in ''intelligent'' tutors where a machine gains knowledge about a student and then changes problems and hints to aid the learner....

 



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