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Abstract: Technology diverts engineering education into learning management system for distance education activities. Learning management system facilitates the management of education and training process, including instructor‐student, student‐student, and student‐content communication. Nevertheless, distance education has some disadvantages of not being able to establish active communication with students as in traditional education. This research offers a system which merges student emotion recognition with learning management system. This study aims to investigate the effects of merging student emotion recognition with learning management systems on learners’ motivation and academic achievements. In this research, the quasi‐experimental design adopted 103 engineering students who were divided into three groups: the control group (participates in face‐to‐face education), the experimental group I (uses a system that merges emotion recognition with learning management system), and the experimental group II (uses learning management system). As a result of the research, it was found that the academic achievement and motivation of the experimental group I was significantly better than performance of the experimental II and the control group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most important feature of the intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), one of the most popular study topics of recent years, is that it provides an opportunity for individual learning by taking students' individual differences into account. In order to be able to realize this feature, it is necessary that the system recognizes students well. The process of recognizing student is performed as a result of observations which ITS applies on students. A number of uncertainties arise during these observations. In order to minimize learning uncertainties and create a productive and effective ITS, type-2 fuzzy logic, one of the artificial intelligence techniques, is used in the system developed in this study. In order to show the effectiveness of the developed web-based ITS, it is applied to the teaching of a basic Control Course. The educational evaluation of the system is presented in the paper. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 21: 561-571, 2013 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]