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Metadata Based Web Distance learning Platform -IEEE International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics
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Intelligent Communications for a Distributed Learing Environment: a Software Agents Tale
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A “Mobile Virtual Lab” for Supporting Engineering Curricula
No full textE-Learning is offering new approaches and opportunities in the field of education
above all in the sector of the virtual laboratories. The opportunity to interact with the real
instruments that are in a lab represents an effective way for the implementation of a teaching
approach oriented to a problem solving strategy. The wide diffusion of mobile devices
(smartphones and tablets) makes this approach more effective and appealing for the students. In
this paper we introduce Jini Technologies to design and implement a distributed architecture for
a mobile virtual lab for supporting the activities of an Electronic Measurement Course. The aim
of this environment is offering to the students the opportunity to experiment a real interaction
with the laboratory’s instruments everywhere and every time by the use of mobile devices. A
prototype of the architecture and its services will be discussed and an evaluation campaign will
be showe
E-Learning and Personalized Learning Path: A Proposal Based on the Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System
Full text linkThe E-Learning is becoming an effective approach for the improving of quality of learning. Many institutions are adopting this approach both to improve their traditional courses both to increase the potential audience. In the last period great attention is paid in the introduction of methodologies and techniques for the adaptation of learning process to the real needs of students. In this scenario the Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System can be an effective approach. Adaptive hypermedia is a promising area of research at the crossroads of hypermedia and adaptive systems. One of the most important fields where this approach can be applied is just the e-Learning. In this context the adaptive learning resources selection and sequencing is recognized as among one of the most interesting research questions. An Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System is composed by services for the management of the Knowledge Space, the definition of a User Model, the observation of student during his learning period and, as previously said, the adaptation of the learning path according to the real needs of the students. In particular the use of ontology?s formalism for the modeling of the ?knowledge space related to the course can increase the sharable of learning objects among similar courses or better contextualize their role in the course. This paper addresses the design problem of an Adaptive hypermedia system by the definition of methodologies able to manage each its components, In particular an original user, learning contents, tracking strategies and adaptation model are developed. The proposed Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System has been integrated in an e-Learning platform and an experimental campaign has been conducted. In particular the proposed approach has been introduced in three different blended courses. A comparison with traditional approach has been described and the obtained results seem to be very promising
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