International Journal on ELearning articles from January 2005

International Journal on ELearning archives from January 2005

Supporting learning and information sharing in natural resource management with technologies for electronic documents.
January 1, 2005... Community participation is central to achieving sustainable natural resource management. A prerequisite to informed participation is that community and stakeholder groups have access to different knowledge sources, are more closely attuned to...

Designing agents for feedback using the documents produced in learning.
January 1, 2005... This article reports on research, which is based on the premise that the main aim of teaching is to provide appropriate feedback to students as they learn. Human tutors make this process easier by asking students what they are thinking about a...

A virtual hyperbooks model to support collaborative learning.
January 1, 2005... Learning by collaboratively writing scientific hyperbooks requires specific software tools. We present a model for creating, managing, and viewing hyperbooks. This model is comprised of a re-usable document repository (fragments repository),...

Reusing educational material for teaching and learning: current approaches and directions.
January 1, 2005... In this article we survey some current approaches in the area of technologies for electronic documents for finding, reusing, and adapting documents for teaching or learning purposes. We describe how research in structured documents, document...

Use of relational and conceptual graphs in supporting e-learning tasks.
January 1, 2005... The learning process for a user becomes seriously restrictive in trying to discover the relationships between concepts and in searching for a part of concept (called an object) such as a solved example illustrating the concept or the...

Automatically generating effective online help.
January 1, 2005... Instructional text, and procedural text in particular, is a genre that users heavily rely upon when they are learning new procedures, devices or systems. It is, however, also well-known to be a genre that is difficult to produce and maintain....

Smart recommendation for an evolving e-learning system: architecture and experiment.
January 1, 2005... In this article, we proposed an evolving e-learning system which can adapt itself both to the learners and to the open Web, and we pointed out the differences of making recommendations in e-learning and other domains. We propose two pedagogy...

Workflow-based personalised document delivery.(Just In Time Training system)
January 1, 2005... New employees in an organisation typically undergo a period of relatively intense training when they commence their employment. Often the quantity of information imparted is too large for the newcomers to assimilate during the short training...

A fully automatic question-answering system for intelligent search in e-learning documents.
January 1, 2005... E-learning is a novel method for presenting information to students for the purpose of education. Currently a sea of information is available in the form of PowerPoint slides, FAQs and e-books. However the potential of this large body of...