Animated pedagogical agents enhance learning outcomes and brain activity during learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjing Li ◽  
Fuxing Wang ◽  
Richard E. Mayer ◽  
Tao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Pedagogical Agents ◽  
Animated Pedagogical Agents

scholarly journals Neural alignment predicts learning outcomes in students taking an introduction to computer science course

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meir Meshulam ◽  
Liat Hasenfratz ◽  
Hanna Hillman ◽  
Yun-Fei Liu ◽  
Mai Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Final Exam ◽  
Neural Representations ◽  
Real Life Setting ◽  
The Right ◽  
Mri Study

AbstractDespite major advances in measuring human brain activity during and after educational experiences, it is unclear how learners internalize new content, especially in real-life and online settings. In this work, we introduce a neural approach to predicting and assessing learning outcomes in a real-life setting. Our approach hinges on the idea that successful learning involves forming the right set of neural representations, which are captured in canonical activity patterns shared across individuals. Specifically, we hypothesized that learning is mirrored in neural alignment: the degree to which an individual learner’s neural representations match those of experts, as well as those of other learners. We tested this hypothesis in a longitudinal functional MRI study that regularly scanned college students enrolled in an introduction to computer science course. We additionally scanned graduate student experts in computer science. We show that alignment among students successfully predicts overall performance in a final exam. Furthermore, within individual students, we find better learning outcomes for concepts that evoke better alignment with experts and with other students, revealing neural patterns associated with specific learned concepts in individuals.

scholarly journals Automatic Deictic Gestures for Animated Pedagogical Agents

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Sri Rama Kartheek Kappagantula ◽  
Nicoletta Adamo-Villani ◽  
Meng-Lin Wu ◽  
Voicu Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Agents ◽  
Animated Pedagogical Agents
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