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Despite the popularity of MOOCs in providing opportunities for socialization, collaboration, and professional improvement, there has been little research exploring them in the context of Software Engineering Education (SEE). The purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding of practices and challenges when developing academic software engineering MOOCs. To this end, we research (i) how...
This paper presents how platforms initially designed to enable the construction of personal learning environments can help teachers and learners to aggregate their own MOOCs from resources freely available in the Cloud under Creative Commons licenses. Compare to the mainstream MOOC platforms like Coursera or EdX which are basically learning management systems open to external students, the proposed...
A novel learning tool based on the new paradigm well-known as Edutainment using mobile technologies is deployed. The developed tool moves the issue of education to the context of entertainment. This paradigm ensures that education is seen as an activity that provides entertainment and excitement pleasure. This characteristic gives to lifelong learning an added value. Considering that the mobile-phone...
The paper provides background theory related to learning and Web 2.0 technologies and describes an innovative application of them to increase people's awareness of Web 2.0 technologies. It is to find answers for two questions: (1) is Web 2.0 technologies appropriate in supporting social learning? And (2) how Web 2.0 supports the process of social learning? Based on the four components of Boisot's...
Personalized and inclusive eLearning scenarios in scalable open architectures feature several challenges. In particular, to manage, what, when, how and why offering recommendations to users in these scenarios we have designed a recommendations model and a multi-agent architecture. The paper presents the motivations of our work for intelligent support in inclusive eLearning, introduces the approach...
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