In order to help our students learn English more effectively, we teachers of English need to place an equal emphasis both on designing suitable teaching materials and making use of effective teaching methodologies. Of the two types of teaching materials; namely authentic and non-authentic materials that are being used nowadays in schools and universities in most EFL countries, the use of the fo...

Grid computing environments with abundant resources can support innovative e-Learning applications, and are promising platforms for e-Learning. To support individualized and adaptive learning, teachers are encouraged to develop various teaching materials according to different requirements. However, traditional methodologies for designing teaching materials are time-consuming. To speed up the d...

The study focuses on problems related to the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in HumanComputer Interaction (HCI) for Educational Adaptive Hypermedia (EAH). It analyses how to apply Machine Learning (ML) techniques to support teachers in authoring teaching materials. AI principles and techniques are applied to the generation, testing and recommendation of teaching materials (computer ...

E-learning is an important and widespread contemporary trend in education. Because its success depends on the quality of digital materials, the mechanism by which such materials are accredited has received considerable attention and has influenced the design and implementation of digital courseware. For this reason, this study examined the mechanism by which digital materials are accredited in ...

Electronic representation of teaching materials enables their reuse for a more efficient development of courses. Most authors consider reuse as a matter of metadata, which describes entities of teaching materials in a way that authors can search and assess the entities before adding them to a course. In this paper we identify two additional requirements for reusable entities: Abstractness and a...

The designer works with people, with materials, with products. Designers are seen as people concerned with form, function and surface. But how often is the designer associated with technology? Still programming can be just as a creative activity as drawing. Deriving from experiences from the discipline of Interaction Design, we advocate a wider view on what a designer is and does by describing ...

In common with many other universities, we recently introduced some innovative teaching techniques in two introductory physics courses at the University of Toronto [1]. These included Peer Instruction, Interactive Demonstrations, and Activity-Based Tutorials. For many of these, we used classroom-tested materials from U.S. universities, and found that they were often insufficiently challenging f...

This article describes the rationales and thoughts behind LENO, which is a tool for production of web-based teaching materials. The actual tool, and the characteristics of the materials produced by the tool, are first briefly described. Following that, the why and wherefore of a number of key properties are discussed. This discussion is relevant for users of LENO teaching materials. The discuss...