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Information and communication technologies have been widely adopted in most of educational institutions to support e-Learning through different learning methodologies such as computer supported collaborative learning, which has become one of the most influencing learning paradigms. In this context, e-Learning stakeholders, are increasingly demanding new requirements, among them, information security...
In this paper, we describe and analyze how design research methodology has been implemented in one research project in engineering education. In a first part, we describe the research project in engineering education, we explain why we decided to apply the design-based methodology and how we did it. In a second part, we consider the methodology itself, and in the particular context of the study. First,...
A significant proportion of e-Learning resources for engineering and computing education appear to be exclusively in English, requiring many learners to adapt themselves to learning within an English language context. Adaptive learning has a role to play in minimizing this adjustment and strengthening the learning. This research plans to understand learning needs, and take a Content and Language Integrated...
The success of an e-learning project depends largely on the quality of applications and tools used to support the learning process. Meanwhile, the quality of software depends largely on proper identification of stakeholders in the requirements stage in the development process. While there are studies that have identified key stakeholders in e-learning contexts, most of them do not perform a deep analysis...
This paper proposes a trustworthiness model for the design of secure learning assessment in on-line collaborative learning groups. Although computer supported collaborative learning has been widely adopted in many educational institutions over the last decade, there exist still drawbacks which limit their potential in collaborative learning activities. Among these limitations, we investigate information...
Education is one of the main application areas in personalized systems. Personalization is especially important for Web-based education due to at least two general reasons. First, most web-based applications are to be used by a much wider variety of users in comparison to traditional environments and personalization helps system suit users. Second, such systems are learner centric and users are working...
Innovation and engineering are very close concepts. Innovation is one of the key competences of the engineers in the way they use their own creativity and knowledge base to face the problems they have to resolve for humanity’s improvement and social evolution. In this special section, we have selected four papers from three research events (CINAIC 2013, TEEM 2013, and ISELEAR 2013) that empower the...
A continuous trend of the past decade has shifted educational responsibility to individuals, while elaborate Internet technologies have fostered easy and open ways to content and communication in a location- and time-independent manner. Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) have emerged as a new paradigm within the context of network-centric learning. While interacting with others interested in the same...
The introduction of m-learning systems often do not show the expected benefits. The main problem is the low acceptance of this new kind of teaching and learning process by some interest groups. In context of the PhD thesis the problem of "Technology Adoption" from the perspective of students and lecturers needs to get deeply analysed. Academic papers that explicitly analyse the intention...
Time has shown that technology has always had a significant influence on and role in education. The more advanced technology was the greater contribution it made to education. When we look back we can clearly see how great an influence film, radio and television have had on education. The second half of the twentieth century was marked by the results of the use of computers and information and communication...
Speech is the most natural form of face-to-face communication. Due to more sophisticated information systems and advanced educational requirements speech also recognizes growing importance in human-computer interaction. The present study investigates a text-to-speech (TTS) feature in a learning context. 252 questionnaires allow for descriptions concerning positive and negative experiences of TTS learners...
E-Learning is making inroads into schools in India in a large scale. Making use of information and communication technology (ICT) for learning can be very effective in delivering education to masses and thereby bridging the educational divide. How far is e-learning suitable, feasible and acceptable to school children of developing country like India is a question that needs careful study. This paper...
The accurate estimation of the difficulty level of the questions posed to students is essential to help them to learn more effectively and efficiently. However, it is agreed that teachers usually fail to identify the correct difficulty level of the questions, according to the answers and final scores obtained by their students. Thus, this paper examines the ability of teachers for categorizing questions...
Personalized on demand e-learning has gained traction driven by socio-economic and demographic change. Concomitant with these developments is the revolution in the capability and ubiquity of mobile systems. The result of these developments is interest in personalized e-learning provided on-demand using mobile technologies. Additionally, e-learning is utilizing Web 2.0 technologies to enable personalized...
The issue of personalization in e-leaning platforms is surveyed, especially how to do the learning contents adaptation according to the learner's profile. The realization of adaptive learning scenario become more expensive in terms of development cost and times and it requires specific abilities. Besides, the educator wants to reuse existent scenario. That's why, he has to model his course following...
The technology enhanced learning is believed to be useful in representing the contexts and situations which are harder to explain verbally or bring to the classroom. One of the most important concerns in higher education is to ensure that the learning outcomes are achieved accordingly and learners acquire the desired capability. Most important techniques in supporting learning in higher education...
Context-aware e-learning is an educational model that foresees the selection of learning resources to make the e-learning content more relevant and suitable for the learner in his/her situation. The research reported in this paper was purposed to improve an existing system for personalized e-learning with contextualisation features. This has been done by defining a context model, an ontology-based...
This paper presents a novel algorithm for tagging the relationship of test on the learning content called Binary Union-plus Tag (BUT). The proposed algorithm is motivated by the desire of students to re-study unacquainted content after a test. By binary coding items of content, BUT provides the users of an e-Learning system a certain range of content which lacks learning to connect to tests and content...
With teaching and learning becoming more and more location and time-independent all participants can benefit from better flexibility. This helps to develop more effective ways of further education. And that is one of main aspects of a new research project called Computer Engineering Online. Within this joint project of five German universities an innovative study program for bachelor and master degrees...
Learning Management System (LMS) has been used widely in higher learning institution as a mechanism to aid in teaching and learning process. LMS application provides the platform to assist in communications between users, distributing lecture notes, and submitting assignments. It provides the engagement platform between instructor's and learner's. However analysis conducted highlighted that users...
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