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Patterns in Authoring of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: A Taxonomy of Learning Styles

ABSTRACTThis paper describes the use of adaptation patterns in the task of formulating standards for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems that is currently under investigation by the EU ADAPT project. Within this project, design dimensions for high granularity patterns have been established. In this paper we focus on detailing lower granularity adaptive patterns based upon […]

Online college classes offer valuable option for students

Kathy Gould needed a convenient way to combine her part-time job at a Kohl’s department store and maintain a full-time course load at Camden County College. When she could not fit one more class into her daily schedule, she found another option – online classes.Read the Full Story

Personalisation for All: Making Adaptive Course Composition Easy

ABSTRACTThe goal of personalised eLearning is to support e-learning content, activities and collaboration, adapted to the specific needs and influenced by specific preferences of the learner and built on sound pedagogic strategies. One of the major challenges to the mainstream adoption of personalised eLearning is the complexity and time involved in composing the adaptive learning […]

Online Courses for home schoolers and high school students

(PRLEAP.COM) Bryan College decided last spring to build an online campus and with the help of the Learning House the first session begins on August 22, 2005.Read the Full Story

Syllabus 2005 Keynotes– View: Coming Face2Face with Synchronous Learning

Syllabus 2005Presenter(s): Judith Boettcher, Ph.D.Air Date: 7/26/2005 Air Time: 4:00 PM PSTLength: 1 Hour 16 Minutes 38 SecondsRead the Full Story

A distance education boom, spawned by call centres

As BPOs’ young turks see the appeal of degrees minus college, correspondence courses hit a new highRead the Full Story

Selected Topics from a Matched Study between a Face-to-face section and a Real-time Online section of a University Course

AbstractTwo sections of an interpersonal skills building university course were observed for the purposes of this matched study. The face-to-face (F2F) section was in a classroom on the Concordia University campus in Montreal, Canada, while the non-turn-taking real-time online section used a Web application, LBD eClassroom© designed specifically for highly interactive large size classes and […]

The online university

Professors at MIT have decided to teach physics in Thailand, organic chemistry in Azerbaijan, and modern poetry in Bangladesh–and that’s just for starters.Read the Full Story

Earning college credit in high school

BROCKTON — A chance to earn college credit, boost his grade-point average and learn more about the subjects he loved was an offer that Brockton High School senior Matthew Houstle couldn’t refuse.Read the Full Story

Developing a Collaborative Multidisciplinary Online Design Course

AbstractTechnology is transforming the practice of architecture and design from the conceptual stages right down to the actual construction. One would assume technology is being readily integrated into current design education. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The purpose of this study is to explore the integration of online education into the curriculum of architecture […]