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ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Synote: Designed for all Advanced Learning Technology for Disabled and Non-Disabled People
This paper describes the development and evaluation of Synote, a freely available accessible web based application that makes multimedia web resources (e.g. podcasts) easier to ac...
Mike Wald
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
A New Approach Based on Modelled Traces to Compute Collaborative and Individual Indicators Human Interaction
We propose in this paper a new method to compute indicators based on models transformations. We use the concept of modeled trace and trace-based system to design an indicator. We u...
Tarek Djouad, Alain Mille, Christophe Reffay, Moha...
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Modelling Affect in Learning Environments - Motivation and Methods
Emotions have a functional relevance to learning and achievement. Not surprisingly then, affective diagnoses are an important aspect of expert human mentoring. Computerbased learni...
Shazia Afzal, Peter Robinson
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
The Design and Application of an Automatic Course Generation System for Large-Scale Education
—In China, the number of online learners who attend formal education has quadrupled in the last 5 years to 8.2 millions until the end of 2008. How can online teachers build and u...
Xiaohong Tan, Carsten Ullrich, Yan Wang, Ruimin Sh...
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Reusing Adaptation Strategies in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems
—Due to the difficulty and thus effort and expenses involved in creating them, personalization strategies in learning environments have to demonstrate a higher returnon-investmen...
Joshua Scotton, Alexandra I. Cristea
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Course Ranking and Automated Suggestions through Web Mining
—This paper introduces new metrics for course evaluation. It is also proposes a ranking algorithm that classifies courses based on the previous course evaluation metrics and sugg...
Stavros Valsamidis, Ioannis Kazanidis, Sotirios Ko...
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
A Social Network Analysis Perspective on Student Interaction within the Twitter Microblogging Environment
— This paper summarises the analyses of participant interaction within the Twitter microblogging environment. The study employs longitudinal probabilistic social network analysis...
Karen Stepanyan, Kerstin Borau, Carsten Ullrich
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Continuous Use of Authoring for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: A Long-term Case Study
—Adaptive educational hypermedia allows lessons to be personalized according to the needs of the learner. However, to achieve this, content must be split into stand-alone fragmen...
Jonathan G. K. Foss, Alexandra I. Cristea, Maurice...
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Towards a Competence Based System for Recommending Study Materials (CBSR)
— Most e-learning systems require intervention from a teacher. The development of adaptive hypermedia systems, such as intelligent tutoring systems, aimed to reduce the teachersâ...
Athitaya Nitchot, Lester Gilbert, Gary B. Wills
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Increasing Students In-Class Engagement through Public Commenting: An Exploratory Study
Student engagement is a pervasive and persistent goal for educators. In previous work we have reported that activities like public real-time commenting on videos can enhance studen...
Honglu Du, Hao Jiang, Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Ca...