• DocumentCode
    3074884
  • Title

    Athena - A Web Powered Mentoring Solution in the Milieu of Higher Education

  • Author

    Alai, Adhiraj ; Gunasekaran, Rajkishan

  • Author_Institution
    IIT Madras, Chennai, India
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    14-16 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    216
  • Lastpage
    220
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/T4E.2011.42
  • Filename
    6004386