Keywords: In this document, we delineate the state of the art in fields related to the myOntology project including wikis, semantic wikis, ontology formalisms, ontology change management, triple stores, ontology visualization, user interface techniques, and achieving community consensus. The main challenge for the use of ontologies in fast changing areas such as e-commerce is to provide compreh...

Introduction: Distance learning seems to have a crucial impact on the social and emotional life of students. Within the framework of distance learning at the Open University of Cyprus, the “Healthcare Management” department conducted a study regarding the levels of stress, anxiety and depression reported by the student population. The aim of the study was to record the emotional state of the st...

In recent years, the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has contributed to the generation of a number of interesting initiatives in the field of music education and training in virtual learning environments. However, music education initiatives employing virtual learning environments have replicated and perpetuated the traditional model, resulting in sub-optimal use...

This paper presents an outline of a methodology for the test of an open software e-learning platform. The methodology includes a test generation method from UML descriptions, in particular Sequence, Activity, Class diagrams and Navigation maps. It also includes data modelling proposing two approaches: one based on OCL and the other on UML profiles. The studied open software e-learning platform ...

The purpose of this study was to explore group forming strategies by examining participation behaviours during whole class discussions associated with active participation in a following small group activity. Written communication data, posted in class discussion forums (843 messages/70,432 words) and small group forums (732 messages/59,394 words), were analyzed quantitatively. The result indic...

Development of conceptual knowledge is an important part of education. In individualized instruction this aim can be facilitated by concept maps interconnected with learning materials. Traditional adaptive web-based elearning systems use a closed and static corpus, which is predefined in the design time. But there is plenty of learning resources publicly available on the Web, which provide a hu...

Over the past six years, the nation has moved rapidly from punch cards and levers to electronic voting systems. These new systems have occasionally presented election officials with puzzling technical irregularities. The national experience has included unexpected and unexplained incidents in each phase of the election process: preparations, balloting, tabulation, and reporting results. Quick t...

New research drawing on theories of selforganisation and trail formation in social insects suggests an alternative to traditional design processes in e-learning. This short paper provides an introduction to this promising area, describes results from initial experimentation with the techniques and suggests a number of topics for further research.

BACKGROUND Internet can serve in opening the door to a brand new world of high quality medical information. However, the chaotic size of data available in the WWW is often misleading. We sought to provide the world medical community with a web portal that may be used as a clearinghouse providing the outlet for dissemination of high quality WWW educational products. METHODS Directories of the ...