Animal Companion Approach to Fostering Students' Effort-Making Behaviors

Authors:
Zhi-Hong Chen;Calvin C. Y. Liao;Tzu-Chao Chien;Tak-Wai Chan
Affiliations:
Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan, {hon, calvin, brian, chan}@lst.ncu.edu.tw;Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan, {hon, calvin, brian, chan}@lst.ncu.edu.tw;Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan, {hon, calvin, brian, chan}@lst.ncu.edu.tw;Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan, {hon, calvin, brian, chan}@lst.ncu.edu.tw
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The effort-making behavior is significant for learning, since it involves beliefs students hold within. In this paper, an animal companion approach is proposed to foster students' such learning behaviors through nurturing virtual pets, in which learning tasks are regarded as “work” and the value of effort is cultivated. In addition, inspecting open learner models is also encouraged by interacting with animal companions, which might be helpful to students' self-awareness for their efforts made.