This paper presents an application based on Adobe Flash and SCORM within a MOODLE learning environment, which provides individualized assignments for students who learn digital systems. The assignments are evaluated automatically and the result is reported to the MOODLE platform. Since the tasks are solved by the students remotely and unattended, each student needs to get his or her personalize...

We propose a flexible architecture that is capable of function extension for a learner-adaptive self-learning environment. We have introduced the concept of a “courseware object”, which is a program module that is used to implement various educational functionalities, and, thus, the proposed architecture allows incremental function extensions while maintaining the existing functionalities. To i...

The Virtual Campus platform is composed of two main subsystems (see Figure 1). The Authoring Environment supports Educators in creating and organizing didactical material in Learning Objects (LOs). The internal structure of the authoring environment is described in more detail in Section 3.2, and exploits proper languages for LO definition that are described in Sections from 3.3 to 3.6. Learnin...

Based on SCORM sequencing and navigation specifications, a learning management system has been developed. The system has intelligent tutoring system capabilities that allow contents, presentation and navigation to be adapted according to the learner’s requirements. In order to achieve that development, two concepts were put together: multi-agent systems and data mining techniques (especially th...

This paper presents, VIANET, a new web framework addressing the distance learning scenario. The VIANET project aims at bringing together the most promising web technologies and standards, in order to attain a highly competitive online learning environment. Moreover, the new web framework includes a Learning Management System (LMS), a SCORM based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) and a V...

It is well known that personalized tutoring helps to improve the learning process and to obtain better results. With this aim we are developing a model including the learning styles of the students. We based our model on the Felder-Silverman Learning Styles Model. According to the student learning style, the instruction is established by a proposed set of rules. To prove our model we propose to...

This paper models authoring course practices on the SCORM-compliant Content Repository Management System (CRMS) and presents three new invaluable components: the Ontology-Based Outline Authoring Tool (OBOAT), the Visualized Online Course Authoring Tool (VOCAT), and the Visualized Online Simple Sequencing Authoring Tool (VOSSAT). The pivotal role that ontologies play in authoring SCORM-compliant...

AIM To examine the relation between exposure to passive parental smoke and myopia in Chinese children in Singapore. METHODS 1334 Chinese children from three schools in Singapore were recruited, all of whom were participants in the Singapore Cohort study Of the Risk factors for Myopia (SCORM). Information on whether the father or mother smoked, number of years smoked, and the number of cigaret...

Digital tracks represent the information about activities of users during their interactions with a computing platform. In e-learning environments, the analysis of these tracks is considered as an information source of obvious importance: the Effectiveness of the monitoring process of learning depends on it as taking good decisions like the update of the available learning resources and the per...

— Reducing the production costs associated with digital materials in the e-Learning area is a imperative need. One of the followed strategies is to build didactical materials as modular and reusable components, called digital Learning Objects (LO). Their most important advantage is their ability for integrating easily with other more complex LO to build didactical units or complete courses. In ...