Towards Effective Machine Tutoring through Real-Time Dialog

• In Event: D&D - Learner-centered Teaching Strategies

Short Description

Dialog between a machine tutor and a student is just as vital as the conversations between human tutors and students. Formerly, machine tutors were vastly inferior due to the superiority of human dialog. While machine-human dialog is still inferior to human conversation, one of the two key barriers to parity, the problem of voice recognition, has largely been solved. Now, let’s overcome the second problem, generating intelligent dialog, and create effective machine tutors?

Author

• Kenneth Luterbach, East Carolina University