International Journal on ELearning articles from January 2006

International Journal on ELearning archives from January 2006

Special issue: learning objects in context guest editors introduction.(PREFACE)
January 1, 2006... Welcome to this special issue on "learning objects in context"! The papers in this issue have their origins in a workshop we organized in March 2005, with the support of the ProLearn network of excellence on professional learning (1) and the...

The challenge of content creation to facilitate personalized e-learning experiences.
January 1, 2006... The runtime creation of pedagogically coherent learning content for an individual learner's needs and preferences is a considerable challenge. By selecting and combining appropriate learning assets into a new learning object such needs and...

Learning group formation based on learner profile and context.
January 1, 2006... An important but often neglected aspect in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is the formation of learning groups. Until recently, most support for group formation was based on learner profile information. In addition, the...

Authoring of learning objects in context.
January 1, 2006... Learning objects and content interchange standards provide new possibilities for e-learning. Nevertheless the content often lacks context data to find appropriate use for adaptive learning on demand and personalized learning experiences. In the...

Modularization and structured markup for learning content in an academic environment.
January 1, 2006... This article aims to present a flexible component model for modular, web-based learning content, and a simple structured markup schema for the separation of content and presentation. The article will also contain an overview of the dynamic...

Virtual Workshop Environment (VWE): a taxonomy and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework for modularized Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)--applying the learning object concept to the VLE.
January 1, 2006... Based on existing Learning Object taxonomies, this article suggests an alternative Learning Object taxonomy, combined with a general Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework, aiming to transfer the modularized concept of Learning Objects...

A metadata profile to establish the context of small learning objects: the slicing book approach (1).
January 1, 2006... In order to re-use small learning objects their correct technical and semantic context must be preserved. The paper discusses this problem based on the experience of re-engineering a large corpus of pre-existing texts into learning objects of...

Ontology-based learning content repurposing: the ALOCoM framework.(abstract learning object content model)
January 1, 2006... This article reports on the development of a framework for repurposing learning object components, more specifically components of slide presentations. Unlike the usual practice where learning object components are assembled manually, the...

Competence-based knowledge structures for personalised learning.
January 1, 2006... Competence-based extensions of Knowledge Space Theory are suggested as a formal framework for implementing key features of personalised learning in technology-enhanced learning. The approach links learning objects and assessment problems to the...

Strategies for reuse of learning objects: context dimensions.
January 1, 2006... Based on research in ten projects in a university, corporate learning, and military context, a set of dimensions is found that can help decision makers to develop strategies for reuse (Strijker, 2004). This article describes how these...

A knowledge-based approach to describe and adapt learning objects.
January 1, 2006... Our claim is that semantic metadata are required to allow a real reusing and assembling of learning objects. Our system is based on three models used to describe the domain, learners, and learning objects. The learning object model is inspired...

Progressive inquiry learning object templates (PILOT).
January 1, 2006... In most cases digital learning objects are used for individual learning (reading, looking, playing, quizzes) or by teachers in their class-room or online teaching (presentations). In PILOT project we argue that learning objects should be...

Just-in-time generation of pedagogically sound, context sensitive personalized learning experiences.
January 1, 2006... The just-in-time generation of personalized learning experiences requires the assembly of atomic learning assets into coherent learning activities for a learner, based on his/her preferences and requirements. Through the appropriate application...

Towards next generation activity-based learning systems.
January 1, 2006... The need for e-learning systems that support a diverse set of pedagogical requirements has been identified as an important issue in web-based education. Until now, significant research and development effort has been devoted to aiming towards...

A "simple query interface" adapter for the discovery and exchange of learning resources.
January 1, 2006... Developed as part of CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technology efforts to improve interoperability between learning resource repositories, the Simple Query Interface (SQI) is an Application Program Interface (API) for querying heterogeneous...

Interoperability of repositories: the simple query interface in ARIADNE.
January 1, 2006... This article reports on our experiences in providing interoperability between the ARIADNE knowledge pool system (KPS) (Duval, Forte, Cardinaels, Verhoeven, Van Durm, Hendrickx et al., 2001) and several other heterogeneous learning object...

Learning objects and process interoperability.(Shareable Content Object Reference Model (web-based e-learning standard))
January 1, 2006... CURRENT SITUATION There has been considerable emphasis on the availability and reuse of learning content in recent years. Since 2000, the ADL initiative has refined the recommendations contained in the SCORM documents through progressive...