Many prospective students appropriately ask, what if I have a question or don’t understand the material? The fear that they will be bored and learn little is a real concern. Now, technology is finding ingenious solutions to those pertinent questions.
eScience News has reported that researchers from MIT, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Memphis have created new software dubbed “Auto Tutor” that can respond to student’s emotional states such as frustration and boredom in online classes.