This research tackles the importance of language fluency and accuracy in addressing learners’ needs achieving their goals behind learning relation to using various communicative situations related work or academic life. Language vary based on interests. Many learners are interested improving when communication daily lives, whereas we find other who focus linguistic such situations. aims at reve...

Self (1999) argues that the essence of having a computer-based learning system that “cares” about its learners is that the system model its learners so as to be able to adapt to their needs. In this paper we discuss the notion of personal agents who care for their “owners” by representing the owners’ interests in the learning system. We contextualise this discussion by showing how such personal...

in the opinion of many specialists and teachers, there is lack of enough attention to the needs of the students and their learning styles in the arabic language curriculum. learning styles are important factors in the success of teaching. this study aimed at determining the learning styles of arabic language and literature students in iranian universities. the method of study is survey, and the...

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) hold the potential to address the needs of informal learners for multi-sourced content and easily customisable learning environments. This paper presents the lessons learned from a case study regarding the use of widget-based PLEs by informal learners for finding and evaluating Open Educational Resources (OER). The lessons learned from this case study have ...

Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting language learning, particularly for independent adult learners. However, in order for it to succeed it needs to fit in with these learners’ approaches to language learning. While there is an extensive literature on many other aspects of language learning and teaching, particularly in classroom setting...

BACKGROUND The numbers of learners seeking placements in general practice is rapidly increasing as an ageing workforce impacts on General Practitioner availability. The traditional master apprentice model that involves one-to-one teaching is therefore leading to supervision capacity constraints. Vertically integrated (VI) models may provide a solution. Shared learning, in which multiple levels ...

Technological advancements within the educational sector and online learning promoted portable data-based adaptive techniques to influence the developments within transformative learning and enhancing the learning experience. However, many common adaptive educational systems tend to focus on adopting learning content that revolves around pre-black box learner modelling and teaching models that ...

In this position paper we suggest that Learning Analytics for Learners (LAL) requires new digital competences of learners. The use of Open Learner Models, Learning Analytics, and Visual Analytics creates new opportunities for learners, but our own research indicates that digital competence to take advantage of these opportunities needs to be extended to specifically address data literacy and us...

How can learners build their own knowledge, which is precisely tailored to their needs and background? This is the question which this paper attempts to answer by providing a framework for a flexible object-based elearning environment. The paper recognizes that, in order to properly address learners’ requirements, instructional technologies must be more adaptive and use a variety of media. In i...

Contextualization is a paradigm for building intelligent systems that can better predict and anticipate the needs of users, and act more efficiently in response to their behaviour. Privacy and legal protection rights are a major challenge that needs to be tackled when capturing and using contextual data for recommendation. The privacy of learners can be protected through identity management. Pa...