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ConsiderIT session Friday, April 1

This Friday you are invited to attend “Adaptive Online Tutoring Teaches Flexibly & Improves Reading Comprehension.”

Who: Professor David Eckerman, Psychology; and Professor Roger Ray, Psychology at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.
When: Friday, April 1, 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Where: 404 Hanes Hall

Professors Eckerman and Ray will discuss their use of and development within MediaMatrix, an adaptive tutorial software system that delivers artificially intelligent tutoring services. The character of these services constantly adapts to each student’s personal needs for support and intellectual challenge. It adapts the display of text, prompts, and even the question format to address personal needs by making a constant comparison between a student’s developing semantic network and a reference expert’s semantic network. A recent study of an introductory psychology class using this system as an alternative to a traditional textbook found an average 20% increase in SAT/GRE types of reading. Join Professors Eckerman and Ray for a demonstration and discussion.

– Lori Mathis, Instructional Applications Manager
ITS-Teaching and Learning, Center for Instructional Technology
e-mail: mathis@email.unc.edu; tel: 962-8256

“ConsiderIT with Colleagues–Teaching with Technology at UNC-Chapel Hill” is a series sponsored by the Center for Instructional Technology. Faculty, TAs, and staff are invited to share and discuss selected teaching and learning issues related to technology. For descriptions of previous talks in the series, see http://www.unc.edu/cit/considerit/.