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Adult Learners’ Impressions About Intelligent Tutorial System: A Case Study of Adult Basic Education and Training

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Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition (ICL 2022)

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This study was to establish whether using an ITS prototype developed for delivering a technology course in Sesotho can enhance the training experiences for ABET Sesotho-speaking learners and assist them in better understanding the content of the technology course. The “magic number five” rule was used in the study to test the developed ITS Prototype. The population of the study consisted of 5 Sesotho-speaking adult learners. User tasks and questionnaires were used to collect data needed for the study. Collected data were analysed using Descriptive statistics. The results from the data analysis showed that the highest impressions as perceived by participants with regards to using the ITS offering technology course in their mother tongue were their ability to quickly understand the content of the technology course, their high level of confidentiality when using ITS providing instructions in their mother tongue and their ability to learn the technology course much quicker. Based on these results, the current study has established that the use of ITS delivering course in the mother tongue could address the language barriers faced by many previously disadvantaged black adults willing to join the ABET programme.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

    Ntima Mabanza

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Mabanza, N. (2023). Adult Learners’ Impressions About Intelligent Tutorial System: A Case Study of Adult Basic Education and Training. In: Auer, M.E., Pachatz, W., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition. ICL 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 634. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26190-9_17

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