Towards an xml-based representation of collaborative action
Interaction analysis is a core function for the support of coaching and evaluation in CSCL. It
relies on information captured from the actions performed by the participants during the collaborative process. This information includes data of distinct nature and format, which demands a flexible and standardised data representation, adaptable to different analytical perspectives and collaborative situations. Besides this, it is known that the correct interpretation of human action needs to take con
Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort
Congress posed questions about the effectiveness of educational technology and how effectiveness is related to conditions and practices. The study identified reading and mathematics software products based on prior evidence of effectiveness and other criteria and recruited districts, schools, and teachers to implement the products. On average, after one year, products did not increase or decrease test scores by amounts that were statistically different from zero.
For first and fourth grade read
Is there a way to e-Bologna? Cross-National
Collaborative Activities in University Courses
This article describes a study of distance collaborative activities that
have been conducted in a cross-national setting between a Greek and a German
university. We discuss issues related to organization, technology, and curricula
considerations. In addition, we analyze the modes of cooperation that have been
chosen in the students' work on creative problem solving tasks and conclude
that for complex learning scenarios succesful collaboration and peer tutoring in
advanced learning support enviro
Integrating research teams: the TELMA approach
In the context of the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence, six European research teams developed a methodology for integrating their research approaches. In this paper we present the methodology, based on a cross experiment, showing how it gave insight to the understanding of each team's research, and on the relationship between theoretical frameworks and experimental research.
Internet safety in emerging educational contexts
Concern has arisen for the safety of children using the Internet to support their education outside the school context. Inappropriate material such as pornography, inflammatory and racist writings can be accessed both by accident and with deliberate intent to view. Children are also perceived to be at risk from approaches by strangers, particularly in web-based chat rooms.
A survey of the international literature in this area highlighted worldwide concern for the safety of young Internet users
The times they are a-changing: the subculture
of music and ICT in the classroom
This paper reports findings from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project InterActive Education, which focused on the ways in which new technologies can improve teaching and learning in educational settings. We draw upon data which emanates from the work of seven music teachers working in English primary and secondary schools, who collaborated with university researchers to research their classrooms. Through our analyses of video data, teacher interviews and teach
Adaptive and Dynamic Hypertext Tutoring Systems Based on Knowledge Space Theory
Knowledge space theory provides a formal model for representing students' knowledge and describing the structure of a domain of knowledge. A similar formal structure can be used to described the structure of hypertexts. The combination of knowledge space theory and the formal hypertext model leads to a framework for intelligent tutoring systems which provides individualized learning paths to a student. Using powerful procedures from relational database systems and from knowledge space theory, we
Formalismes pour une mémoire de formation à base d’annotations : articuler sémantique implicite
Cet article a pour objet de présenter les formalismes définis pour des mémoires de formation à base d’annotations au sein du projet MICA. Il explicite les objectifs de la recherche et les exigences que cela apporte sur les outils visés. Une étude des travaux de la littérature sur les annotations et leurs formalismes montre qu’ils ne couvrent que de façon très limitée nos objectifs. Nous présentons alors les formalismes que nous avons développés, en structurant l’objet d’anno
Les logiciels d'apprentissage : panoplie ou éventail ?
The main goal of this article is to elaborate a typology in the domain of computer-supported
learning. The first problem that has to be addressed concerns the diversity of computer-supported
learning programs and the multiple ways in which one could classify them. The proposed typology
is based on the pedagogical function aimed at by the teachers or designers. Moreover, we propose
a characterisation on three aspects : the tasks proposed to the learners, the theoretical viewpoint
underlying the d
Architecture d’un environnement d’aide à l’apprentissage de la chirurgie orthopédique
Dans cet article, nous présentons le composant
didactique et pédagogique d’un EIAH
(Environnement Informatique pour
l’Apprentissage Humain) pour la chirurgie
orthopédique. Nous étudions l’architecture
logicielle de ce composant, qui sera ajouté comme
couche d’apprentissage sur un outil de simulation
de planification d’une trajectoire de vis. Enrichir
cet outil permettra à l’apprenant de l’utiliser pour
acquérir l’expérience de la prise de décision
chirurgicale pour la pl
Virtual mental space: interacting with the characters of works of literature
We build the software implementation of virtual mental space: its
inhabitants are interacting with the literature characters in natural language.
The players are encouraged to ask questions about intentions and desires,
knowledge and believes, pretending and deceiving of the literature characters.
Works of literature are identified based on the patterns of mental interaction
between the characters. Reasoning about mental states and natural language
processing with the semantic focus are the tech
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Computing Ontology Creation
In this paper an approach for the development of an Ontology for the domain of Computing Education is presented. This approach was applied in the FP5 IST Project DIOGENE - A Training Web Broker for ICT Professionals. I am outlining our work on the Computing Ontology creation, and am giving some guidelines and hints for further usage of the Ontology.
Affordances – a Merleau-Pontian Account
In this paper, the concept of ‘affordance’ is given an ontological and epistemological explication building on a
Merleau-Pontian view of human being as always already being-in-the world in a non-thematized, pre-reflective
correspondence of body and world in the concrete activity. A dynamic, agent-centred, cultural-, experience- and
skill-relative, but perception-independent, ontology is proposed for affordances. It is argued that this is more in
line with the original Gibsonian understanding
User Interfaces for a Virtual Learning Environment: Two Study Cases
A recent powerful idea in the design of Web-based learning environments is the usage of virtual places. The employment of interface metaphors is one of the approaches enabling inexperienced users to feel comfortable in such virtual environments. We have designed a Virtual Environment for Distance Education and Training (VEDET), which provides basic virtual spaces, resources, and services. In this paper we discuss the user interface of two Web-based distance learning courses Business on the Inter
Towards a narrative-oriented framework for designing mathematical learning
This paper proposes a narrative-oriented approach to the design of educational activities, as well as a CSCL system to support them, in the context of learning mathematics.
Both Mathematics and interface design seem unrelated to narrative. Mathematical language, as we know it, is devoid of time and person. Computer interfaces are static and non-linear. Yet, as Bruner (1986; 1990) and others show, narrative is a powerful cognitive and epistemological tool. The questions we wish to explore are –
Learning about Users from Observation
Many approaches and systems for recommending information,
goods, or other kinds of objects have been developed
in recent years. In these systems, machine learning methods
are often used that need training input to acquire a user
interest profile. Such methods typically need positive and
negative evidence of the user’s interests. To obtain both
kinds of evidence, many systems make users rate relevant
objects explicitly. Others merely observe the user’s behavior,
which yields positive evidence
A First Step Mapping IMS Learning Design and Moodle
Mapping the specification IMS Learning Design and the Course Management
System Moodle is a logical step forward on interoperability between eLearning systems and
specifications in order to increase the best acceptance of the specifications into the widespread
world of the eLearning systems and to ensure the standardization of the outputs from the
systems to be used in others. IMS Learning Design and Moodle look for a common
understanding focused on the integration of information packages modelle
Managing complexity of e-learning administration in
ARCADE
ARCADE (Architecture for Reusable Courseware Authoring and DElivery) is a Webbased
e-learning platform specially targeted to the needs of distant education in
universities and schools. This paper presents ARCADE in two aspects: as a system for
distance learning and as a virtual university. The authors put accent on the way of
organization of the education process as a whole while showing the power of the
ARCADE platform. Moreover, there is discussed in details the administration of courses
and s
ATI Portal for Technology Enchanced Learning
The presented paper describes development of Advanced Training Institute (ATI) portal for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). The ATI portal is an interactive tool presenting FP6 NoE Kaleidoscope project competences to potential users - people who want to receive training for achieving the competences shown. The main purpose of ATI is to establish an efficient broadcast/response mechanism to propagate specific TEL request to the Kaleidoscope community and to identify existing matching competenci
