Title :
Athena - A Web Powered Mentoring Solution in the Milieu of Higher Education
Author :
Alai, Adhiraj ; Gunasekaran, Rajkishan
Author_Institution :
IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Abstract :
In this paper, a web powered solution to the growing inaccessibility of expertise and support in the form of academic and career counseling to a large section of the student community, especially in developing nations, has been proposed. A prototypical implementation of the model solution has been studied and a few envisaged extensions have been enumerated.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; further education; Athena; Web powered mentoring solution; higher education; student community; Decision trees; Educational institutions; Employee welfare; Engineering profession; Peer to peer computing; Social network services;
Conference_Titel :
Technology for Education (T4E), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1521-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4534-9
DOI :
10.1109/T4E.2011.42
