Capturing Learning Attitudes through Presentation Design Activities

Abstract

This paper describes a unique learning system that cultivates a positive attitude toward learning through presentation design activities. Learners are assigned two tasks: a declarative knowledge task, and a presentation task that involves selecting slides to create a presentation from among a set of slides that is provided. The slides have been prepared so that some of the slides are relevant and support the theme of the presentation while others are redundant or may even contain wrong information. A learner model is presented that captures the attitudes of subjects toward learning as they perform these tasks.