AI mapping – Resources

Name	URL	Cost	Address	Year Created	Type	Audiences	Technologies	User count	Creators	Description	Tech Description	Uses	Reasons	Pros	Limitations	Publications
Assistments	https://new.assistments.org/	Free	Worcester, Massachusetts (USA)	2003	Academic - School	Secondary (12-17 years old), Teachers and Learners with special needs	Expert systems and Analytics	0	ASSISTments	Assistments is a platform that helps teachers create homework, supports students with immediate feedback and advice, and provides teachers with student performance analyses, suggesting where to focus their teaching time.	AI to identify concepts that should be gone over again by the teacher.	Learning mathematics	N/A	Immediate feedback on homework, analysis of student performance. Free.	Appropriation of the tool. Connection with Google Classroom or Canvas.	Roschelle, J., Feng, M., Murphy, R. F., et Mason, C. A. (2016). Online mathematics homework increases student achievement. AERA Open, 2(4), 2332858416673968.
OU Analyse	https://analyse.kmi.open.ac.uk/	Free	Royaume-Uni	2017	Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over) and Learners with special needs	Analytics	0	Knowledge Media Institute	Pilot project based on machine learning for early identification of students at risk of failing. All students at risk of failing have course tutors and student support teams available to them every week for appropriate support.	Data analysis	Identify students at risk of failure.	N/A	Detects students at risk of failure.	N/A	Rienties, B., Cross, S. et Zdrahal, Z., 2017. Implementing a learning analytics intervention and evaluation framework: What works?. In Big data and learning analytics in higher education (pp. 147-166). Springer, Cham.
Kialo Edu	https://www.kialo-edu.com/	Free	USA	2017	Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over)	Natural language processing and Analytics	0	Kialo	An online debate platform with an easy-to-navigate arrangement of the various arguments. Students can put a question to debate, add arguments, respond to other students, and vote on the relevance of previous responses.		Analysis of arguments, identifying trolls	N/A	Makes arguments easier to understand.	N/A	Beck, J., Neupane, B., et Carroll, J. M. (2018). Managing Conflict in Online Debate Communities: Foregrounding Moderators' Beliefs and Values on Kialo.
Khan Academy analytics	https://www.khanacademy.org/	Free	USA	2011	Academic - School	Preschool (0-5 years), Primary (6-11 years old) and Secondary (12-17 years old)	Analytics	0	David Hu	Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.		With Khan Academy, teachers can identify gaps in their students' understanding, tailor instruction, and meet individual student needs.	S.O.	Adaptive learning	S.O.	http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-machine-learning-to-assess-student-mastery.html
UTIFEN	https://www.utifen.org	Free	Niamey (Niger)	2016	Academic - School	Teachers	Analytics	24,000	Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC)	UTIFEN is a smart, adaptive online training platform. It adapts learning materials and sends personalized text messages based on each participant’s progress.		Personalized teacher training (using computer, tablet or phone), collaboration between participants.	N/A	Adaptive learning. Adapts learning materials. Personalized text messages.	N/A	Karsenti, T. et al. Le projet UTIFEN, pour la formation des enseignants du Niger. Bulletin de liaison RIFEFF (2018)
Rubi	https://rubi.ucsd.edu	Free	San Diego (USA)	2004	Academic - School	Preschool (0-5 years)	Visual recognition and Robotics	0	University of California	The goal of the Rubi project is to explore the potential of sociable robots as an educational and enrichment tool for toddlers in early childhood education environments. Students can play with the robot; the robot can ask questions and smile, its cameras can identify each child's face and tell when they’re feeling happy, sad, angry or frustrated.		Recognizes facial expressions, Identifies each child’s face, identifies their emotions (joy, sadness, anger, frustration), Predicts children's preferences for different activities.	N/A	Plays with children, Identifies children's emotions, Predicts children's preferences.	N/A	https://rubi.ucsd.edu/publications
Writing Pal	http://www.adaptiveliteracy.com/writing-pal	Free	Payne Hall 108, 1000 S. Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287, US		Academic - School	Teachers	Visual recognition and Analytics	0	SoLET Lab à Arizona State University	Writing Pal is a web-based software tool developed to provide a means of automatically scoring essays in the same way as a teacher might while also providing writing strategy instruction, game-based practice and individualized formative feedback to help students improve their writing proficiency.		Learning English (Writing)	N/A	Receive a score and formative feedback, assistant	N/A	Roscoe, R. D., Allen, L. K., Weston, J. L., Crossley, S. A., & McNamara, D. S. (2014). The Writing Pal intelligent tutoring system: Usability testing and development. Computers and Composition, 34, 39-59.
Kaspar	http://www.herts.ac.uk/kaspar	Free	University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK	2005	Academic - School	Preschool (0-5 years), Primary (6-11 years old) and Learners with special needs	Robotics	0	University of Hertfordshire	Kaspar is a humanoid robot that acts as a social companion to improve the lives of children with autism and other communication difficulties. By interacting and behaving in a child-like way, Kaspar helps teachers and parents support children with autism to overcome the challenges they face in socialising and communicating with others.		Helping autistic children	N/A	Improve communication, interpersonal skills and emotional well-being. Teach children with autism about physical interactions. Facilitate collaborative play between autistic children. Help teachers and parents support children with autism.	N/A	Huijnen, C. A., Lexis, M. A., & de Witte, L. P. (2016). Matching robot KASPAR to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) therapy and educational goals. International Journal of Social Robotics, 8(4), 445-455.
RoboTutor	https://www.cmu.edu/scs/robotutor/what-is-robotutor/index.html	Free	CMU-RI-NSH 3113, 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA	2015	Academic - School	Primary (6-11 years old) and Learners with special needs	Natural language processing, Visual recognition and Speech Recognition	0	Carnegie Mellon University	RoboTutor is an open-source Android tablet app that enables children ages 7-10 with little or no access to schools to learn basic reading, writing, and arithmetic without adult assistance. Each RoboTutor session consists of a series of activities selected by the child from a few reading, comprehension, or numeracy activities at his or her current level, with a sequence of items for the child to perform. RoboTutor adapts to each child by assessing performance automatically, providing individualized help and feedback, adjusting its estimate of his or her level, and proceeding accordingly. It was one of five $1M Finalists in the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE competition.	Speech and handwriting recognition, Automated question generation, Educational data mining.	learning reading, writing and basic arithmetic without the help of an adult.	N/A	Practicing with scaffolding and feedback, Eliciting active processing, Adapting to individual student, Open source.	N/A	Saxena, M., Pillai, R. K., & Mostow, J. (2018, April). Relating Children’s Automatically Detected Facial Expressions to Their Behavior in RoboTutor. In Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
iTuffy	http://www.fullerton.edu/it/services/ituffy/index.php	Free	California State University, Fullerton 800 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton, CA 92831-3599. USA		Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over)	Natural language processing	0	California State University	iTuffy is an application used at California State University that allows students to ask questions about services on campus in a conversational format. Using student information stored in a variety of data warehouses, iTuffy is able to show student grades, display their current schedule, provide directions, operating hours for campus offices and services, and help students enroll in classes.	Processing natural language to answer students questions, Speech to text & text to speech conversions, Machine learning to learn from asked questions to improve accuracy.	Chatbot answering student questions about campus services	N/A	Improve the campus experience, Immediate response.	N/A
Navigator	https://gooru.org/about	Free	350 Twin Dolphin Dr, Suite 115, Redwood City, CA 94065, USA		Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over) and Teachers	Analytics	0	Gooru Learning	With Navigator, learners experience a GPS-like journey for learning, instructors monitor their learners and engage them with classroom practices, administrators track performance and scale success, and content providers develop a greater audience. Navigator uses AI techniques to individualize the learning experience and make individual learning at scale possible by understanding each learner through computing their preferences, context, and performance.		Adaptive learning, Real-time Feedback	N/A	Adaptive learning, Real-time Feedback	N/A	Songer, N. B., Newstadt, M. R., Lucchesi, K., & Ram, P. (2020). Navigated learning: An approach for differentiated classroom instruction built on learning science and data science foundations. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2(1), 93-105.
BBookX	https://beyond.psu.edu/bbookx/	Free	State College, PA 16801, États-Unis.		Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over)	Analytics	0	Pennsylvania State University	BBookX is a new technology that uses a human-assisted computing approach to enable creation of open source textbooks. BBookX uses intelligent algorithms to explore Open Educational Resource (OER) repositories and return relevant resources that can be combined, remixed, and re-used to support specific learning goals. As instructors and students add materials to their book, BBookX learns and further refines the recommended material.	Intelligent algorithms to explore Open Educational Resource (OER) repositories and return relevant resources to support specific learning goals, Machine learning to further refine the recommended material.	Creation of open source textbooks	N/A	Saves teachers money by creating their own textbooks, Saves time when creating a new manual, Students can create their own textbooks.	N/A	Liang, C., Wang, S., Wu, Z., Williams, K., Pursel, B., Brautigam, B., ... & Giles, C. L. (2015, September). Bbookx: An automatic book creation framework. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (pp. 121-124).
First Class	https://beyond.psu.edu/firstclass/	Free	801, États-Unis		Academic - School	Teachers	Natural language processing, Visual recognition and Analytics	0	Pennsylvania State University	First Class is an immersive experience platform that brings the power of augmented reality to teacher education. First Class features a virtual K–12 class with six AI students, allowing aspiring teachers to use movement, voice, and gestures to interact with and react to the “virtual students” as the latter engage in a variety of behaviors.		Immersive experience platform for aspiring teachers	s.o.	Practice authentically, Virtual students, Valuable feedback to users during and after their experience	N/A
Summit Learning	https://www.summitlearning.org/	Free	755 Rockwell Ave, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, 53538, United States.		Academic - School	Primary (6-11 years old) and Teachers	Analytics	160,000	Summit Learning	Summit Learning platform helps schools create a culture where all students are invested in their own learning. Students work with their teachers to set goals and track progress, and they are are given the time, support, and resources they need to master new material and apply what they've learned before moving on. Teachers see the day-to-day progress of each student.		Adaptive learning	N/A	Individualized teaching, Autonomous learning, increase student engagement, Strong relationships between teachers and students, Free.	N/A
AutoTutor	https://www.memphis.edu/iis/projects/autotutor.php	Free	Institute of Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, 365 Innovation Dr, Memphis, TN 38152, USA		Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over)	Natural language processing, Visual recognition, Speech Recognition and Analytics	0	The University of Memphis	AutoTutor is a computer tutor that helps students learn by holding a conversation in natural language. It simulates a tutorial dialogue between human tutors and students as they work step-by-step through online tasks. AutoTutor tracks the cognition and emotions of the student and responds in a manner that adapts to the student. Emotions are recognized by the dialogue patterns, facial expressions, and body posture of the student.		Learning physics and computer skills	N/A	Conversations in natural language (written or spoken). Conversational Agent adapts to the student, encouraging students to develop detailed responses and deep understanding	N/A	Graesser, A. C., Li, H., & Forsyth, C. (2014). Learning by communicating in natural language with conversational agents. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23(5), 374-380.
iTalk2Learn	https://www.italk2learn.com/	Free	University College London, Gower Street Wc1e 6bt London, UK	2012	Academic - School	Primary (6-11 years old)	Natural language processing, Speech Recognition and Analytics	0	Projet de recherche, Franctions Lab , financé par l'Union Européenne	iTalk2Learn is a learning platform that supports maths learning for students aged 5 to 11. It facilitates interaction in different modalities including speech, as well as multiple representations which can be manipulated and reasoned with when learning fractions. The system takes into account all historical performance across an entire student base as well as the behavioural patterns of each individual student in order to adapt more intelligently to their needs. It is able to interact with and respond to a student’s speech throughout a tutoring session to detect patterns of behaviour, attitude to the learning situation and affective states.	Machine learning, Natural language processing, Bayesian networks (an AI technique) to detect and improve the emotional states of the student, Speech recognition to interact with and respond to a student's speech.	Mathematics learning	N/A	Learn in a more natural way, Individualized learning, Detect and improve the emotional states of the student, Provide context specific feedback	N/A	https://www.italk2learn.com/deliverables-and-publications/publications/
Betty’s Brain	https://wp0.vanderbilt.edu/oele/bettys-brain/	Free	Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA		Academic - School	Secondary (12-17 years old)	Natural language processing and Analytics	0	The Teachable Agents Group (à Vanderbilt University)	Betty’s Brain is a computer-based learning environment that utilizes the learning-by-teaching paradigm to engage students in learning about science topics. Students are encouraged to teach a fellow student, in fact a virtual agent, called Betty. students are supported to teach Betty, then to query Betty to see how much she has understood, and finally to quiz Betty to see how well she does on questions generated automatically by the system, many of which the student may not have considered. Additionally, the system monitors the students’ actions, guides and mentors them as they go about their learning and teaching tasks.		Science learning	N/A	Development of metacognitive skills, strengthen knowledge of river ecosystems	N/A
Crystal Island	http://projects.intellimedia.ncsu.edu/crystalisland/	Free	North carolina state university, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA		Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over) and Teachers	Analytics	4,000	North carolina state university	Crystal Island is a game-based learning environment for middle grade science and literacy. In the game, students play the role of a medical field detective investigating a mysterious infectious disease outbreak affecting a team of scientists on a remote island. While exploring the island research camp from an immersive first-person viewpoint, students utilize critical thinking skills to solve problems about the source and impact of the outbreak, test hypotheses using virtual laboratory equipment, and complete a diagnosis worksheet to record their findings.	AI techniques to create an intelligent game-based learning environment, to provide automated supportive feedback, to build AI-driven autonomous non-player characters (companion agents)	Learning science and language arts	N/A	Motivating and engaging context for students to solve a scientific problem, Develop the ability to interpret complex information texts. complete classroom instruction, test bench for researching intelligent tutoring systems, Free.	N/A	http://projects.intellimedia.ncsu.edu/crystalisland/publications
Ada	http://www.aftabhussain.com/ada.html	Free	Deane Road Campus, Deane Road, Bolton, BL3 5BG, USA		Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over), Teachers, Researchers and Other education actors	Natural language processing	0	Bolton College	Ada is able to respond to a spectrum of student enquiries, delivering personalised and contextualised responses that draw on data such as the student’s courses, their progress, their goals and their individual targets. Ada is able to respond to questions about the library, student services, finance, accommodation, transport, careers, and examinations – and it learns more with every interaction.	Natural language processing to process requests (texts)	Digital assistant for students, teachers and support teams	N/A	Immediate responses at any time, Respond to students' questions about a wide variety of College services, contextualized responses to questions asked by students, enable teachers and support teams to trigger actions and interventions	N/A
Smart Learning Partner	https://aic-fe.bnu.edu.cn/en/news/95078.html	Free	The 4th and 5th Floor, Building 3, Beishahe West 3rd Road and Manjing Road Intersection, Beijing Normal University (Changping Campus, G Section), Changping District, Beijing 102206, China		Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over)	Analytics	0	Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education de Beijing Normal University et Tongzhou (district de Beijing)	The Smart Learning Partner uses AI technologies to put students more in control of their own learning. The platform uses AI to match students and tutors according to student queries and tutor areas of expertise, together with the tutor’s availability and ratings given to them by other students whom they have already tutored. The student uses the app to search for a tutor, to ask what they want to know about any school topic, and they then receive twenty minutes of one-to-one online tuition (sharing audio and screens only).		AI to match students and tutors, recognition of emotions.	N/A	Find the tutor best suited to the subject	Chinese site	Lu, Y., Chen, C., Chen, P., Chen, X., & Zhuang, Z. (2018, June). Smart learning partner: an interactive robot for education. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 447-451). Springer, Cham.
EER-Tutor	https://ictg.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz:8005/eer-tutor/login	Free	Christchurch, New Zealand		Academic - School	Post-secondary (18 years and over)	Natural language processing and Analytics	0	Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group, University of Canterbury	EER-Tutor is a constraint-based tutor that teaches conceptual database design using the Entity Relationship model. Students are provided a problem solving environment to design a data model for a real world scenario. Adaptive tutorial dialogues facilitate discussion of mistakes in a student solution.	Natural language processing, Machine learning to discover commonly occurring learning behaviours, Adaptive tutorial dialogues.	Teaching conceptual database design using the Entity Relationship model	N/A	Adaptive tutorial dialogues, higher learning rate	N/A

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