Towards Personalised Support for Home Tutors: Identification of Tutoring Rules

Orla Lahart

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2864–2870

There has been little focus on providing personalised support for parents in their role as home tutors. This is surprising given the high correlation between parental involvement in learning activities in the home and the child's academic success. P....

Topics: Tutoring

Music Matters an ITS for Violin students

Orla Lahart; Stephan Weibelzahl

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1662–1666

The application of Artificial Intelligence in Music Education is quite challenging due to the subjective nature of music. Music Matters is an Intelligent Tutoring System that provides an individualised learning environment for beginning violin...

Topics: Students, Intelligence, Tutoring, Artificial Intelligence

P.A.C.T. – Coaching the Parent in Home Tutoring Best Practice

Orla Lahart; Declan Kelly; Brendan Tangney

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 7205–7212

Research informs us that there is a high correlation between parental involvement in learning activities in the home and the child's academic success. However, despite this there has been little focus on providing personalised support for parents in ...