Learning by Teaching SimStudent - Interactive Event

Noboru Matsuda, Victoria Keiser, Rohan Raizada, Gabriel Stylianides, William W. Cohen, Kenneth R. Koedinger

Abstract: SimStudent is an educational software infrastructure which is designed to leverage the tutor effect in an on-line learning environment. Tutor effect is the phenomenon that students learn when they teach others. SimStudent allows students to learn by teaching a computer agent instead of their peers. SimStudent is a lively computer agent that inductively learns skills through its own tutored-problem solving experience. SimStudent is integrated into an on-line learning environment where students can interactively tutor SimStudent in how to solve equations [1].