Providing a feeling of other remote learners' presence in an online learning environment via realtime sonification of Moodle access log
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When people learn using Web-based educational resources, they are sitting in front of their own computer at home and are physically isolated from other online learners. In this study, an Open Sound Control based prototype system for sonification of the access log of Moodle, a popular e-learning system, has been developed as a way to provide a feeling of other learners’ presence. To generate sound from access log in Moodle, we designed a mapping of the log data to sound parameters.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013