Educators have witnessed lately a proliferation of web-based learning applications. These web-learning environments have made learning much more convenient by stretching the spatial and temporal barriers. Their effect...
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Educators have witnessed lately a proliferation of web-based learning applications. These web-learning environments have made learning much more convenient by stretching the spatial and temporal barriers. Their effectiveness, however, remains to be examined. In this research, the authors study the relative effectiveness of two different types of web-learning environments: distributed passive learning (DPL) versus distributed interactive learning (DIL) environments. In the DPL environment, the web is only used to deliver linear learning material, such as Word flies and PowerPoint slides. In the DIL environment, however, the learning material is in hypertext format, providing the learner with more exploration and interactivity capabilities. The results of an empirical study show that the DIL environment is superior to the DPL environment in terms of both the learning process and the learning outcome.
This paper first presents a review on the applications of information technologies in assisting learning of geotechnical subjects. Then, a web-based learning program for consolidation settlement analysis and reclamati...
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This paper first presents a review on the applications of information technologies in assisting learning of geotechnical subjects. Then, a web-based learning program for consolidation settlement analysis and reclamation is introduced. Various aspects of consolidation settlement process, consolidation theory and design of reclamation can be illustrated using this module. (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 9: 149-156, 2001.
web-based learning has become a matter of fact at universities. We are now at the edge of new developments with web 2.0 applications and social software is radically changing the way of how we communicate and share in...
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web-based learning has become a matter of fact at universities. We are now at the edge of new developments with web 2.0 applications and social software is radically changing the way of how we communicate and share in social networks. Can we expect an analogous revolution for university education 2.0? 1 will give some arguments that I rather expect an incremental evolution than a radical change. First, I take a look at current elearning implementations and organizational frameworks and give an example from RWTH Aachen University. Against the background of cognitive theories the utilization of web 2.0 applications are promising to strengthen 21(st) century learning. But methods and tools must be adapted to the context of institutional learning as well as the formal regulations must be adjusted vice versa.
Aim: The aim of this article is to describe the nurse managers' expectations, attitudes and experiences on web-based learning before and after participation in a web-based course. Background: Information technolog...
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Few studies have explored the learning difficulties and misconceptions that students encounter when using information and communication technology for e-learning. To address this issue, this research developed a syste...
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Few studies have explored the learning difficulties and misconceptions that students encounter when using information and communication technology for e-learning. To address this issue, this research developed a system for evaluating the learning efficiency of medical students by applying two-tier diagnosis assessment. The effectiveness of the proposed system was evaluated in 11 resident doctors of dermatology enrolled according to a one-group pre- and post-test experimental design. After using the proposed e-learning system, the resident doctors had significantly improved learning efficiency and high satisfaction with the system functions. Although the number of subjects in this study was low, the significant improvements in clinical skills observed at the end of the educational training program indicate that the proposed integrated e-learning system is user-friendly and effective for self-education in the diagnosis skills required by medical students and dermatology residents.
With the rapid growth of computer and Internet technologies, c-learning has become a major trend in the computer assisted teaching and learning fields. Most past researches for web-based learning focused on the issues...
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With the rapid growth of computer and Internet technologies, c-learning has become a major trend in the computer assisted teaching and learning fields. Most past researches for web-based learning focused on the issues of adaptive presentation, adaptive navigation support, curriculum sequencing, and intelligent analysis of student's solutions. These systems commonly neglect to consider whether learner can understand the learning courseware and generate misconception or not. To neglect learner's learning misconception will lead to obviously reducing learning performance, thus generating learning difficult. In order to discover common learning misconceptions of learners, this study employs the association rule to mine the learner profile for diagnosing learners' common learning misconceptions during learning processes. In this paper, the association rules that occurring misconception A implies occurring misconception B can be discovered utilizing the proposed association rule learning diagnosis approach. Meanwhile, this study applies the discovered association rules of the common learning misconceptions to tune courseware structure through modifying the difficulty parameters of courseware in the courseware database so that learning pathway is appropriately tuned. Besides, this paper also presents a remedy learning approach based on the discovered common learning misconceptions to promote learning performance. Experiment results indicate that applying the proposed learning diagnosis approach can correctly discover learners' common learning misconceptions according to learner profile and help learners to learn more effectively. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
There has been a proliferation of web-based learning programs (WBLPs). Unlike traditional computer-basedlearning programs, WBLPs are used by a population of learners who have diverse background. How different learner...
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There has been a proliferation of web-based learning programs (WBLPs). Unlike traditional computer-basedlearning programs, WBLPs are used by a population of learners who have diverse background. How different learners access the WBLPs has been investigated by several studies, which indicate that cognitive style is an important factor that influences learners' preferences. However, these studies mainly use statistical methods to analyze learners' preferences. In this paper, we propose to analyze learners' preferences with a data mining technique. Findings in our study show that Field Independent learners frequently use backward/forward buttons and spent less time for navigation. On the other hand, Field Dependent learners often use main menu and have more repeated visiting. Implications for these findings are discussed. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Often compared to Gutenberg's introduction of the printing press in the 1450s, the use of the Internet in education, and especially within the undergraduate curriculum is ubiquitous. Yet the development and presen...
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E-learning assisted teaching and learning is the trend of the 21st century and has many advantages-freedom from the constraints of time and space, hypertext and multimedia rich resources-enhancing the interaction betw...
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Personalized web-based learning has become an important learning form in the 21st century. To recommend appropriate online materials for a certain learner, several characteristics of the learner, such as his/her learn...
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Personalized web-based learning has become an important learning form in the 21st century. To recommend appropriate online materials for a certain learner, several characteristics of the learner, such as his/her learning style, learning modality, cognitive style and competency, need to be considered. An earlier research result showed that a fuzzy knowledge extraction model can be established to extract personalized recommendation knowledge by discovering effective learning paths from past learning experiences through an ant colony optimization model. Though that results revealed the theoretical potential of the proposed method in discovering effective learning paths for learners, critical limitations arose when considering its applications in real world situations, such as the requirement of a large amount of learners and a long period of training cycles in order to discover good learning paths for learners. These practical issues motivate this research. In this paper, the aim is to resolve the aforementioned issues by devising more efficient algorithms that basically run on the same ant colony model yet requiring only a reasonable number of learners and training cycles to find satisfactory good results. The key approaches to resolving the practical issues include revising the global update policy, an adaptive search policy and a segmented-goal training strategy. based on simulation results, it is shown that these new ingredients added to the original knowledge extraction algorithm result in more efficient ones that can be applied in practical situations. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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