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posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00 authored by Scott Stevens, Dean Zollman, Michael Christel, Brian AdrainThe Pathway project is improving the quality of physics teaching and the number of
available physics teachers by providing virtual expert help on issues of pedagogy and
content. The project combines Carnegie Mellon’s Synthetic Interviews and state-ofthe-
art digital video library technology with pedagogical advances developed at
Kansas State University, and materials contributed by master teachers. The Synthetic
Interview is a technology and technique that creates an anthropomorphic interface
into multimedia data of a particular kind: video of a person responding to questions
(interacting with another person). The responses of the interviewee are presented in
such a way as to simulate the experience of interacting with the expert.