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Scalable Monitoring of Student Interaction Indicators in Exploratory Learning Environments

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We present and evaluate a web-based architecture for monitoring student-system interaction indicators in Exploratory Learning Environments (ELEs),using as our case study a microworld for secondary school algebra. We discuss the challenging role of teachers in exploratory learning settings and motivate the need for visualisation and notification tools that can assist teachers in focusing their attention across the class and inform teachers' interventions. We present an architecture that can support such Teacher Assistance tools and demonstrate its scalability to allow concurrent usage by thousands of users (students and teachers).

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    WWW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web
    April 2016
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