Creating New Learning Experiences on a Global Scale

Creating New Learning Experiences on a Global Scale
Author: Erik Duval
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2007-08-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3540751947

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2007, held in Crete, Greece in September 2007. The papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The conference provides a unique forum for all research related to technology-enhanced learning, as well as its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments.

Developing Effective Educational Experiences through Learning Analytics

Developing Effective Educational Experiences through Learning Analytics
Author: Anderson, Mark
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2016-04-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1466699841

The quality of students’ learning experiences is a critical concern for all higher education institutions. With the assistance of modern technological advances, educational establishments have the capability to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their learning programs. Developing Effective Educational Experiences through Learning Analytics is a pivotal reference source that focuses on the adoption of data mining and analysis techniques in academic institutions, examining how this collected information is utilized to improve the outcome of student learning. Highlighting the relevance of data analytics to current educational practices, this book is ideally designed for researchers, practitioners, and professionals actively involved in higher education settings.

Workshop Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments

Workshop Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
Author: D. Preuveneers
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2015-07-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1614995303

With emerging trends such as the Internet of Things, sensors and actuators are now deployed and connected everywhere to gather information and solve problems, and such systems are expected to be trustworthy, dependable and reliable under all circumstances. But developing intelligent environments which have a degree of common sense is proving to be exceedingly complicated, and we are probably still more than a decade away from sophisticated networked systems which exhibit human-like thought and intelligent behavior. This book presents the proceedings of four workshops and symposia: the 4th International Workshop on Smart Offices and Other Workplaces (SOOW’15); the 4th International Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments (WoRIE’15); the Symposium on Future Intelligent Educational Environments and Learning 2015 (SOFIEEe’15); and the 1st immersive Learning Research Network Conference (iLRN’15). These formed part of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in July 2015, which focused on the development of advanced, reliable intelligent environments, as well as newly emerging and rapidly evolving topics. This overview of and insight into the latest developments of active researchers in the field will be of interest to all those who follow developments in the world of intelligent environments.

STEM Education

STEM Education
Author: Information Resources Management Association
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1629
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1466673648

"This reference brings together an impressive array of research on the development of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics curricula at all educational levels"--Provided by publisher.

E-Learning Systems

E-Learning Systems
Author: Aleksandra Klašnja-Milićević
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-07-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319411632

This monograph provides a comprehensive research review of intelligent techniques for personalisation of e-learning systems. Special emphasis is given to intelligent tutoring systems as a particular class of e-learning systems, which support and improve the learning and teaching of domain-specific knowledge. A new approach to perform effective personalization based on Semantic web technologies achieved in a tutoring system is presented. This approach incorporates a recommender system based on collaborative tagging techniques that adapts to the interests and level of students' knowledge. These innovations are important contributions of this monograph. Theoretical models and techniques are illustrated on a real personalised tutoring system for teaching Java programming language. The monograph is directed to, students and researchers interested in the e-learning and personalization techniques.

Modelling Web-based Learning Ecosystems for Aggregation and Reuse

Modelling Web-based Learning Ecosystems for Aggregation and Reuse
Author: Kai Michael Höver
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3736949898

In der E-Learning-Domäne bilden sowohl die Lernressourcen, Lehrende und Lernende als auch die stattfindenden Lernprozesse in ihrer Gesamtheit Lernökosysteme. Diese Dissertation untersucht die Modellierung von Lernökosystemen zur Unterstützung ihrer Aggregation und Wiederverwendung. Zur Erreichung dieses Ziels müssen Modelle von Lernökosystemen die Aggregierbarkeit, Austauschbarkeit, Interoperabilität und granulare Wiederverwendbarkeit ihrer Daten unterstützen. Auf Basis durchgeführter Nutzerstudien werden Konzepte digitaler Modelle von Lernökosystemen, sogenannte LOOCs (Linked Open Online Courses), entwickelt. Dabei werden insbesondere Technologien des Semantic Webs sowie Linked-Data-Konzepte betrachtet. Die entwickelten ontologischen Modelle bilden die Basis für mehrere E-Learning-Applikationen, welche die Tragfähigkeit der Konzepte sowie eine hohe Nutzerakzeptanz zeigen. Ferner wird ein formales Interpretermodell für CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning) Scripts zur Beschreibung von Lernprozessen, welches mit Hilfe von Abstract State Machines spezifiziert wurde, vorgestellt. In the e-learning domain, the learning resources, teachers and learners and the active learning processes in their entirety construct the learning ecosystems. This thesis examines the modelling of learning ecosystems to support their aggregation and reuse. To achieve this goal, learning ecosystem models must support aggregation, compatibility, interoperability and granular re-usability of their data. Through user studies, digital model concepts of learning ecosystems, i.e. so-called LOOCs (linked open online courses), were developed. In particular, Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data concepts are considered within the context. The developed ontological models form the basis for a number of e-learning applications that show the viability of the concepts as well as a high user acceptance. Further, a formal interpreter model for CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning) Scripts for the description of learning processes specified by using Abstract State Machines is presented.

Learning Analytics Enhanced Online Learning Support

Learning Analytics Enhanced Online Learning Support
Author: Shuang Li
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2023-12-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003815634

Offering the latest developments in online education in the era of big data, this book explores theories, technologies, and practices in the field of data-driven online learning support services using learning analytics. This book is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 reflects and reconstructs the connotation of learning support against the backdrop of education reform, the rise of learning analytics, and the upgrading of the demand for learning services in the new era. Chapter 2 presents a P-K-DSE-E model of online learner characteristics and discusses measurement and data representation methods for learner characteristics based on it. Chapters 3–5 focus on the three types of learning support that are closely related to learning performance and satisfaction, including the promotion of social learning, electronic learning assessment based on the learning process, and personalized tutoring and support. This book innovatively develops the concept, theory, and practical methods of student support services in distance education traditional practices in the new era and provides valuable exploration of data-driven personalized learning service methods and technologies in the era of artificial intelligence through rich examples. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of distance and online education, educational technology, and audiovisual education.

Handbook of Educational Data Mining

Handbook of Educational Data Mining
Author: Cristobal Romero
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2010-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439804583

This handbook provides a thorough overview of the current state of knowledge in this area. The first part of the book includes nine surveys and tutorials on the principal data mining techniques that have been applied in education. The second part presents a set of 25 case studies that give a rich overview of the problems that EDM has addressed. With contributions by well-known researchers from a variety of fields, the book reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the EDM community. It helps education experts understand what types of questions EDM can address and helps data miners understand what types of questions are important to educational design and educational decision making.

Learning and Diversity in the Cities of the Future

Learning and Diversity in the Cities of the Future
Author: Ilona Buchem
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2014
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3832538119

This publication includes the Proceedings of the PLE Conference 2013. The Conference on Personal Learning Environments is now an established annual international, scientific event and a reference point for the current state of the art in research and development in Personal Learning Environments (PLE). The PLE Conference creates a space for researchers and practitioners to share concepts, case studies and research related to the design, development and implementation of Personal Learning Environments in diverse educational contexts including formal and informal education. The 4th PLE Conference in 2013 took place at Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany together with a parallel event at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The PLE Conference 2013 received 75 submissions and welcomed almost 100 delegates from Europe, Asia, Australasia, North and South America and Africa.The papers included in the Proceedings provide rich and valuable theoretical and empirical insights into Personal Learning Environments. Personal Learning Environments (PLE) is an approach in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) based on the principles of learner autonomy, ownership and empowerment. PLEs are integrated, individual environments for learning which include specific technologies, methods, tools, contents, communities and services constituting complex learning infrastructures, enhancing new educational practices and at the same time emerging from these new practices. This represents a shift away from the traditional model of technology-enhanced learning based on knowledge transfer towards a model based on knowledge construction and sharing.