Coaching for Teachers: Applying Professional Solutions within the Educational Environments

Habib M. Fardoun, Sebastián Romero López, Abdulfattah Mashat

2012

Abstract

In a world in which one of the most used sentences is: "I have no time to do ..." Information Technologies play an important role in supporting our daily work including everyday educational settings. These technologies are responsible for making a complete educational system to function successfully. For this to prove, we present the “Coaching for Teacher” system. This system aims to provide solutions for difficulties that teachers face during the teaching/learning process via a personal technological conversational coach. The teacher can appeal and seek advice quickly using our tool, in real time, by comfortably taking to an agent. In this paper, we present the steps we followed to design and develop this agent-based application, and a case study conducted in an educational centre for proof of concept in a real and authentic educational environment.

References

  1. Robinson, B., & Latchem, C. (2003). Teacher education: challenges and change. In B. Robinson, & C. Latchem (Eds.), Teacher education through open and distance learning, London: RoutledgeFalmer, 1-27.
  2. Perraton, H., Robinson, B., & Creed, C. (2001). Teacher education through distance learning: technology, curriculum, evaluation, cost, Paris: UNESCO.
  3. Haddad, W. D. (2003). Is instructional technology a must for learning? Techknowlogi.org, retrieved, September 23, 2004, from: http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_active_pages2/ CurrentArticles/main.asp?IssueNumber=19&FileType=HTML&ArticleID=455
  4. Fardoun H. M., (2011). PhD Thesis, ElearniXML: towards a model-based ap-proach for the development of e-learning systems. University Castilla-La Mancha.
  5. Paules A., Fardoun, H. M., Isarre J., R., 2009. Gestión De Aula En Centros Educativos. http://tabletnet.linkate.es/
  6. Browen Jose A., (2012). Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning. SBN: 978-1-1181-1035-5
  7. Schmitt C., 2002. Technology in Schools suggestions, Tools, and Guidelines for Assessing Technology in Elementary and Secondary Education. NCES: National Center for Educational Statistics.
  8. Hardof-Jaffe, S. and Nachmias, R. (2011) 'Personal information management and learning', Int. J. Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp.570-582
  9. De Freitas, S. (2006) Learning in Immersive Worlds JISC. Retrieved online on 1 March 2007
  10. Tesoriero, R, Fardoun, H. M., Gallud, J. A., Lozano, M., Penichet, V. M. R.: Interac-tive Learning Panels. Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Die-go, CA, USA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol 5613, pp. 236-245. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, (2009).
  11. Fardon H. M., Romero S. L., Alghazzawi, D. M., Romero, J. C., 2012. Monitoring Students Moods for the Detection of Weaknesses in Secondary Schools.
  12. OpenID. Link: http://openid.net/
  13. Coleman, N, 1993, SUMI (Software Usability Measurement Inventory) as a knowledge elicitation tool for improving usability. Unpublished BA Honours thesis, Dept. Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland.
  14. McSweeney, R, 1992, SUMI -- A psychometric approach to software evaluation. Unpublished MA (Qual) thesis in Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Fardoun H., Romero López S. and Mashat A. (2012). Coaching for Teachers: Applying Professional Solutions within the Educational Environments . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - Volume 1: IDEE, (ICEIS 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-17-4, pages 47-56. DOI: 10.5220/0004096100470056


in Bibtex Style

@conference{idee12,
author={Habib M. Fardoun and Sebastián Romero López and Abdulfattah Mashat},
title={Coaching for Teachers: Applying Professional Solutions within the Educational Environments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - Volume 1: IDEE, (ICEIS 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={47-56},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004096100470056},
isbn={978-989-8565-17-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Interaction Design in Educational Environments - Volume 1: IDEE, (ICEIS 2012)
TI - Coaching for Teachers: Applying Professional Solutions within the Educational Environments
SN - 978-989-8565-17-4
AU - Fardoun H.
AU - Romero López S.
AU - Mashat A.
PY - 2012
SP - 47
EP - 56
DO - 10.5220/0004096100470056