Ecompetence Skills for Adaptive Learning Environments in Higher Education
چکیده
Adaptive Learning Environments (ALE) in Higher Education aim to provide academics with flexible learning tools that fulfil the needs of a heterogeneous learning community. ALE can be used to enhance traditional teaching as well as web-based instruction and can promote the implementation of alternative, open modes of learning and instruction. The utilisation of ALE in the educational process requires academics to adopt new didactical approaches, exploit innovative tools and subsequently possess the necessary competences at the technology and education level. The Education and Language Technology Group at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, has developed a number of learning environments/tools with adaptive capabilities aiming to contribute and strengthen a variety of instructional and learning processes. In this paper we elaborate on eCompetence skills for using ALE in higher education and specifically for using the learning environments/tools we have developed, which focus on Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems, Reflective Tutorial Dialogue Systems, Assessment Tools and Synchronous Text-based Communication in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning.