Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of UK television shows in which viewers call into the show using a premium-rate telephone service. At one level it could be argued that in these instances viewers are participating in a lottery. Viewers are typically asked to call a premium-rate telephone line to answer a simple question. Winners are then chosen from all those viewer...

This paper describes a system which allows platform independent access to quizzes of the popular learning platform Moodle. The main focus is on the software architecture which is implemented on the base of platform independent technology like Web Services, HTML5 and JavaScript. Another aspect is the user interface which was developed with the goal to run on a broad range of mobile devices from ...

Temporal patterns of behavior have been observed in real-life performances such as bill passing in the U.S. Congress, in-class studying, and quiz taking. However, the practical utility of understanding these patterns has not been evaluated. The current study demonstrated the presence of temporal patterns of quiz taking in a university-level introductory psychology course and used these patterns...

Lung Cancer Staging: A Tutorial for the Macintosh is an easy-to-use program, developed by Friedman and Dana Software, that is designed to facilitate understanding of the complicated lung cancer staging system. The program takes advantage of the interactional capabilities of computer learning combined with the user friendliness of Apple computers to produce a valuable teaching aid. The purpose o...

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Recommending quizzes in e-Learning systems always represents a challenging task, as the quality of recommendations may have high impact on student’s progress. We propose data analysis workflow based building multiple stacks models that use information from former students’ taken quizzes. The current implementation uses RandomForest algorithm for real-world dataset has been obtained controlled e...

This paper describes assessment features of the Adaptive Learning Environment (ALE) for web-based authoring and learning. ALE provides a reach set of tools for assessment of students: various types of tests, exercises, quizzes and questionnaires. The system offers flexible way of their authoring, presentation and results tracking.

This paper presents Sherlock, a semi-automatic quiz generation system for educational purposes. By exploiting semantic and machine learning technologies, Sherlock not only offers a generic framework for domain independent quiz generation, but also provides a mechanism for automatically controlling the difficulty level of the generated quizzes. We evaluate the effectiveness of the system based o...

introduction traditional teacher-centered methods of teaching and learning are passive and affected by teacher's functions and horizons. today, active teaching methods include teaching  students to be able to observe the situation for exploring and thinking deeper about the issue or problem . so the aim of this study is to survey students' views about the advantages of quizzes  in stu...