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This paper presents a system that works as an assistant for students in their learning process. The assistant system has two main parts: an Android application and a server platform. The Android application is a chatterbot (i.e., an agent intended to conduct a conversation in natural language with a human being) based on AIML, one of the more successful languages for developing conversational agents...
A large number of higher education institutes are increasingly embracing online learning. Australia is fairly one of the primarily countries that attracts a large number of international students. A lot of delivery methods have been attempted in higher education to attract students from various environments. Many numbers of students are already taking different mode of online learning such as distance...
Speech-based test is a one of the best ways to train students' level of proficiency. However, in e-learning it is difficult for students to maintain their concentration when speaking to a monitor. We propose speech-based online test system employing a human-likely embodied graphical agent as a listener. The developed system consists of three modules, user recognition, agent's non-verbal behavior realization,...
Problem-based learning (PBL) educators resorted to developing their own environments even with existence of comprehensive Learning Management Systems (LMS). They realized that both commercial and open source systems were designed with traditional lecture-based instruction in mind. The systems lack the features and scenarios required by the inherently collaborative, dynamic, and timely pedagogy. The...
The paper deals with the process of instruction reflecting individual learning styles. The analysis is built on results of the Learning Combination Inventory which is the questionnaire detecting students' individual learning styles and summarizing their experience in foreign language learning. The paper presents results of students' experience, opinions and expectations reflected in proposals of methods...
This paper details the emergence and development of the ‘Centre for Engineering and Design Education’ (CEDE) at Loughborough University, UK, and provides ample evidence that such a Centre can prove to be a highly effective support mechanism for discipline-specific academics and can develop and maintain valuable national and international networks and collaborations along with considerable esteem for...
Practical workshops are one of the key points to achieve good knowledge in engineering. Faculty or campus based workshops allow to practice only several of hours per week or less due to limited workplaces. Limited possibilities set longer time to finish course, especially if the university has divisions in different cities, offering the same learning course. Possibility to gain some practical skills...
The author deals with e-learning at University of Hradec Králové on the Faculty of Informatics and Management in the Czech Republic. In the second and third part of the article there is the description of main tools in WebCT and ways of students' motivation in the course Business theory and the chosen elements of the constructivism. The fourth part summarizes and analyzes the evaluative questionnaire...
The Virtual Centre for Enterprise (VCE) is a virtual education centre for the development of entrepreneurial skills and competencies. The centre provides intensive vocational courses (e-learning modules), for (primarily) employed learners. The VCE provides learners with the opportunity to develop their competencies in small pieces (steps) as part of an overall learning strategy. The providers of e-learning...
The development of tele-operated experimentation and its provision to distance learners opens new dimensions of knowledge acquisition, particularly where experiments are the core elements of engineering education. The finalized EU-funded project PeTEX-Platform for e-Learning and Telemetric Experimentation has developed a prototype of an e-learning platform based on Moodle for the design and implementation...
In Tunisia, students learn the module preparation to Computer Science and Internet Certificate PC2i in the license's first year, using the online platform Moodle. Selection criteria of students able to obtain the certificate C2i, delivered by the Virtual University of Tunis VUT, are based on students' marks in their exams. This work presents a new approach to classify students able to obtain the certificate...
In 2005 an integrated blended e-learning service based on Moodle Learning Management System (LMS), was introduced in Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland. Review of LMS content shows that some courses contain insufficient number of components, and in many cases the quality of resources is poor. The goal of our research was to identify why some teachers are reluctant to utilize LMS. A...
Digital Signal Processors is an optional course in the Audiovisual Engineering Degree of the University of Alicante. This year a pilot project on developing a blog for the course has been introduced (http://blogs.ua.es/pds0910). This way, students must complete - working collaboratively- a set of assigned blog entries on different extension tasks related to the concepts taught in the theory sessions...
The present article analyses the research results of the effectiveness of a comparatively new but a widely studied learning method - action research - in e-learning project-based (PBL) group studies. The objective of the article is to identify the main principles of collaborative work in an e-learning environment: (1) what effect the students' involvement in the action research method which is based...
Libre software, also known as Open Source Software or Free Software, has already changed the way we know education. This influence goes from content-with examples such as the Wikipedia-, openness -for instance, the OCW- or tools -like learning management systems or desktop applications. In this paper, we introduce some new trends that are inspired in the libre software movement and that may change...
E-learning combines the use of new multimedia technologies and the Internet in order to improve the quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and sources, exchanges and remote collaboration. Today LMS (Learning Management Systems) are quite ubiquitous and choosing one is difficult. These LMS often share the same features: lacking in ergonomics or being only used as documents repositories...
This paper deals with the teaching and learning process based on the detected student's learning style. The teaching process is built on the needs analysis questionnaire which defines students' individual learning style and summarizes their experience in previous foreign language learning. These results are consequently reflected in the teaching methods and approaches to each student. The paper presents...
A significant challenge for Maintenance Management professionals is related to the need for them to possess a truly multi-disciplinary set of competencies. This paper presents an analysis of Maintenance Management training and competence assessment requirements, including results of a user survey conducted in EU countries. On the basis of this, a maintenance management curriculum has been defined...
Tools utilizing the web-server's logs for monitoring and analyzing the users' behavior are used in many fields where the Internet plays a major role as in e-commerce and e-learning. These tools are very useful for tracking the learning activities of the students in web-based Course Management Systems (CMS). While the logs can be customized to include much information on what goes-on in the CMS, they...
In recent years there has been significant growth in the use of virtual worlds for e-learning. These immersive environments offer the capability to create complex, highly interactive simulations. Video games have entered the mainstream as an increasingly popular entertainment format. Virtual learning environments support teaching and learning in an educational context, offering the functionality to...
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