With learning being a process closely connected to sociability, learning on the web is in many cases accompanied and promoted by the creation and maintenance of online communities. Even though today’s web-based learning environments have drastically evolved and now incorporate techniques from other domains and application areas (such as web mining, AI, user modelling, and profiling), setting up...

An exploratory study of students’ engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of students (pre-service teachers) and experts (experienced in-service schoolteachers and academics), is the study’s primary focus. Students’ interaction and knowledge discourse structures, arising from individual readings of academic paper...

x Abstract. We present an oo-line variant of the mistake-bound model of learning. Just like in the well studied on-line model, a learner in the oo-line model has to learn an unknown concept from a sequence of elements of the instance space on which he makes \guess and test" trials. In both models, the aim of the learner is to make as few mistakes as possible. The diierence between the models is...

The goal of this chapter is to introduce the reader to online learning communities, to define and categorize online communities, as well as to present the process, functionality and rules of online learning communities. It also discusses the particular characteristics of the tools and methods that are currently used for supporting online learning communities. It presents a twofold classificatio...

The use of gamification is garnering attention as a method that promotes sustainable learning during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) era. This study investigates effect gamified online has on student and utilized program to examine impact. To determine program’s effectiveness, been conducted with 140 elementary middle school students. A previously developed survey instrument was used me...

Background: Online learning is a growing delivery model for education; however, there exists a void in the literature regarding the adoption of online learning models in rural K-12 school systems. Purpose: To provide pertinent data to the rural school administrator so that they may make an informed decision in regards to the potential implementation of asynchronous online learning within their ...

in this paper an adaptive pid controller for wind energy conversion systems (wecs) has been developed. theadaptation technique applied to this controller is based on reinforcement learning (rl) theory. nonlinearcharacteristics of wind variations as plant input, wind turbine structure and generator operational behaviordemand for high quality adaptive controller to ensure both robust stability an...

The importance of individual culture depends on the characteristics of national culture and the individual’s background; within individual culture, different learning styles also exist. This paper addresses the topic of how learning style interacts with receptivity to online methods in different cultures, in this case in Nigeria. It examines and analyzes online learning environments in terms of...