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Recently there has been an increasing interest in exploring P2P technologies for developing groupware tools to support online learning activity. Among the many features that make P2P technology an important alternative to develop online learning systems is its fully decentralized nature as well as the possibility to customize the learning environments to the needs of groups of learners. In fact, in...
This paper presents a new proposal for representing the emotional and other contextual features of subtitles to be used in educational and other audiovisual material. The main features include the use of a library of video clips of the faces of Deaf signers expressing emotions and atmospheric paintings and other graphics, as well as the use of font size, colour and type and options for subtitle personalisation...
The purpose of this paper is to present the data analysis obtained from our interview study, which showed that participants had different individual mobile learning (hereafter, abbreviated as m-learning) preferences. The understanding of these preferences for different m-learning requirements can be used as a foundation for building successful personalized m-learning applications catered to learners'...
The paper reports on the application of Problem Oriented Engineering (POE) to the design of a highly innovative post-graduate research programme for the Open University, UK, a world leader in supported distance higher education. The new programme, to be launched in October 2009, is a part-time Master of Philosophy (MPhil) to be delivered entirely at a distance, supported by a blend of synchronous,...
This article presents a concept model, and the associated tool to help advanced learners to find adapted bibliography. The purpose is the use of an IT representation as educational research software for newcomers in research. We use an ontology based on the ACM's Computing Classification System in order to find scientific articles directly related to the new researcher's domain without any formal...
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