“I’ve had such a phobia about computers for so long,” says Howell, a high school teacher. “It’s a mixture of fear, not knowing how to use it, not wanting to go through all this upheaval.” But this ...

Tammy Lauer, owner of My Computer Tutor, recently received loan assistance from the Southwest Initiative Foundation’s Microenterprise Loan Program for the start-up of her computer software and ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. Ask a friend to meet you at a restaurant in a city he or she has never visited, and it’s entirely possible the friend will get lost along the way. You might expect ...

The recent development of large language models like ChatGPT has opened new possibilities for the implementation of computer-based tutors.

What if math teachers across the country could get their pupils to learn two to three times faster? Yearlong courses like pre-algebra and geometry could be condensed to several months, freeing up ...

Computer programs that can detect and respond to students' feelings aim to enhance the educational potential of tutoring technology.

On a summer afternoon, Isabel, a math tutor with long chestnut-colored hair and hoop earrings, sat in the lower-right corner of my computer screen as I wrestled with geometry problems. When I answered ...

Human tutors—teachers who work closely with students, one on one—are unrivaled in their ability to promote deep and lasting learning. Education researchers have known this for more than 30 years, but ...

Because there appeared to be no viable path to providing each student with their own personal tutor, Bloom called on educational researchers to “find methods of group instruction as effective as ...