Webinar

Alelo Webinar on How Schools Can Use Avatars to Teach English and Other Languages
Posted by Alelo | December 3, 2020

This webinar discussed the challenges that language learners and language teachers face, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how avatars can help overcome them. We focused particularly on teaching spoken...

How AI Simulations Close the Communication Skills Gap
Posted by Lewis Johnson | November 21, 2019

Enskill EPC was created by Alelo, which started developing AI simulations to help military members quickly learn foreign languages and cultures before deploying overseas. The communications skills learned have helped...

Using AI to Help English Learners Get Past Learning Plateaus
Posted by Lewis Johnson | November 18, 2019

Although 1.5 billion people around the world are studying English, many will never get proficient enough to use English on the job. Instead, they get stuck at learning plateaus. They...

The Baker Learning Analytics Prizes
Posted by Alelo | October 10, 2019

A field only moves forward if it chooses the right problems: big goals that make a difference. Many–perhaps most–of the adaptive learning systems out there are based on the same...

Alelo Webinars for Teachers and Trainers
Posted by Alelo | August 12, 2019

Do your students need more opportunities to practice speaking English? Is lack of self-confidence holding them back? This webinar introduces Alelo’s Enskill simulation platform and explains how to use Alelo...

Why Online Mastery Learning Platforms Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up to Be
Posted by Alelo | April 26, 2019

In Educational Technology communities, there is a debate about the best way to structure online learning programs. Should platforms focus on the individual student or the classroom? Should teachers act...

A Shared Scientific Infrastructure to do Randomized Controlled Trials and Longitudinal Studies
Posted by Alelo | April 7, 2019

By Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic University Shared scientific instruments help address big challenges in research. The Hubble Space Telescope has helped hundreds of astronomers do studies that none of them...

From AI-Enabled CSCL in the Classroom Towards Team Based Learning in the Workplace
Posted by Alelo | February 25, 2019

What does the field of CSCL (computer-supported collaborative learning) have to say to the problem that the World Economic Forum estimates that up to 5 million jobs may be lost...

Improving Comprehension Strategies of Struggling Adult Readers through Conversational Trialogues with AutoTutor
Posted by Alelo | February 18, 2019

For many millennia, adult learning has primarily consisted of interactions with human mentors, tutors, teachers, and peers. During the last 25 years, these communicative actions and interactions have been simulated...

Human Intelligence (HI) as the Focus of Attention
Posted by Alelo | February 12, 2019

The rapid progress of Machine Learning AI that has been built in our human image brings into stark relief the need for us to re-conceptualise Human Intelligence (HI) for an...