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Bridging the gap among cultures: the challenge faced by teachers on producing content for computer-aided education

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Considering computer-aided education, the creation of educational content is still a hard task for teachers. Computational tools are necessary to support authors in creating suitable material for learners from different cultures, allowing effective learning. Aiming to help teachers with such hard task of generating contextualized content to stimulate learners from different places and communities to engage into their own apprenticeship, it has been under development a computational tool called Cognitor, a content editor supported by cultural knowledge expressed on common sense. This paper presents a usability test on Cognitor and discusses preliminary evaluations on it.

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