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[edit] Welcome to the working group on Affect in Education
Learning is accompanied by episodes of success and failure that inevitably invoke a host of associated affective responses. While, the last decade has been ripe with research investigating the interplay between emotions and learning, there are several open challenges hindering progress in this area. These include empirical and theoretical questions such as:
- What are the emotions that are important to learning?
- How are they linked with cognition and meta-cognitive processes (e.g. self-regulation and goal orientation)?
Additionally, the effectiveness of one-on-one tutoring in promoting active knowledge construction has extended the role of affective modeling beyond traditional classroom environments and into the arena of integrated learning environments. This transition requires innovative computational approaches to construct online affect-sensitive learner models and utilize these models to detect and respond to the learner's affect to potentially optimizing learning.
Researchers interested in these challenges range from multiple disciplines associated with the learning sciences such as psychology, education, cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience. Since many of these researchers share the same goals of developing learning environments that effectively coordinate pedagogy with the learner's emotions, the proposed workshop seeks to create cross talk between the areas.
This wiki hopes to offer researchers with a point of contact, repository of ideas and disemination purposes. To do that we have created various areas offering the researcher or practionaire resources that might advance our understanding in this area.
We hope you will find these resources useful. Should you have questions regarding this resource or would like to participate and have an account, please do not hesitate in contacting us.
