This project involves the production of a computer-based multimedia package for teaching Ecology at undergraduate level. The product will be designed to enhance the development of investigation skills in students of ecology and biology. It is a cross-faculty initiative involving collaboration between the Faculty of Education and the Department of Biological Sciences. The package will take full ...

With the accelerating development of open education, lowcost online learning resources, such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), are reaching a wide audience around the world. However, when faced with these appealing but overwhelming learning resources, learners are prone making rash learning decisions, which may be either excessive or insufficient to their learning capacities. To avoid the...

Two different technologies, groupware (a shared workspace) and shared wireless laptop computers, were implemented in a project design class in a civil engineering course. The research interest was in the way these technologies supported resource sharing within and across project groups and in the forms of group collaboration that resulted. The initiative was evaluated using both qualitative (e....

This paper investigates how frequent conversation patterns from a mixed-initiative dialogue with an intelligent tutoring system, AutoTutor, can significantly predict users’ affective states (e.g. confusion, eureka, frustration). This study adopted an emote-aloud procedure in which participants were recorded as they verbalized their affective states while interacting with AutoTutor. The tutor-tu...

During COVID-19 confinement in 2020, there has been a massive increase learning languages online via variety of apps, short courses, and as part higher education on-campus degrees converted to learning. This study argues that attention the balance autonomy community is vital successful language online. An initial exploration recent scholarship on validates this approach evaluating situation. Th...

DIALOGS (Dialog-based Inductive and Abductive LOGic program Synthesizer) is a schema-guided synthesizer of recursive logic programs; it takes the initiative and minimally queries a (possibly computationally naive) specifier for evidence in her/his conceptual language. The specifier must know the answers to such simple queries, because otherwise s/he wouldn’t even feel the need for the synthesiz...

This paper describes a proposal for implementing the "Access for All" initiative by ISO in dotLRN being developed in the context ADAPTAPLAN project: ”Adaptation based on learning, modeling and planning for complex tasks oriented to the user”. As a result, dotLRN will be able to match access individual learner preferences and needs with the appropriate user interface tools and digital learning r...

Investigating the “knowing”, a module of the KARDS model proposed by Kumaravadivelu (2012) for teacher education, of Iranian teachers of learner autonomy, this study is an attempt to illuminate some of the yet unexplored areas of teachers’ various types of knowledge of learner autonomy. Furthermore, it attempts to illustrate how Iranian Non-EFL teachers’ knowing affects their practices with reg...

this paper examines the theoretical rationales and practical aspects of task-based language teaching (tblt) with particular reference to research findings in efl/esl contexts. the definitional scope of the term ‘task’, polarizations in terms of task vs. non-task, and its relation to different language teaching approaches have engendered conceptual and methodological ambiguities.  moreover, fact...