In 1997 the Ministry of Education launched a Programme for the Development of Educational Technologies (PSTD) having as its main stated goals: the provision of infrastructures to schools (PCs, internet connections, etc.); the improvement of teachers’ professional skills in using ICT; the improvement of effectiveness of learning and teaching methods and content; and the promotion of the use of I...

As the new network computer technology forces into every aspect of daily life, many things change in a rather rapid way, compared to what we were used to until recently. One of the most important aspects in the social activity of people, Education, could not be an exception. Advances in network infrastructures and telematics services, combined with multimedia techniques and powerful personal co...

Introduction: Virtual education is among the important factorsimproving the learning of medical students. This study aimed toexplain the perceptions of faculty members towards the challengesof virtual education.Methods: The present study was carried out with a qualitativeapproach and using a conventional content analysis method.The participants included 28 faculty members working inMedical univ...

The development and operation of semantic applications often involves a number of different technologies such as reasoning, text mining and ontology learning. Infrastructures supporting knowledge engineers and users need to provide the requested capabilities in an integrated but flexible way. Also required are basic functionalities such as the storage and management of semantic data and metadat...

Development of Interactive Theorem Provers has led to the creation of big libraries and varied infrastructures for formal proofs. However, despite (or perhaps due to!) their sophistication, the re-use of libraries by non-experts or across domains is a challenge. In this paper, we provide detailed case studies and evaluate the machine-learning tool ML4PG built to interactively datamine the elect...

Mobile educational systems have started to emerge as potential high quality educational environments that support not only school/college/university education but also life-long learning. The exponential growth of wireless technology in recent years, increasing availability of high bandwidth network infrastructures, advances in mobile technologies and the popularity of handheld devices have ope...

This article applies Casual Layered Analysis (CLA) (Inayatullah, 2004) as a framework to examine factors that affect applying a student-centered learning approach in Vietnam. The Four layers of CLA help disclose weaknesses in the current traditional learning approach, causes that create the problems and hidden beliefs that keep traditional perceptions about learning permanent. The results revea...

This paper is focused on a new mode called pervasive learning which relies on the potential of new IT infrastructures able to provide dynamic adaptations of information contents and services according to various contexts. Using our previous experiences in the design and implementation of multichannel accesses to services (mobile-commerce or e-learning) we have designed a new infrastructure, bas...