We have developed virtual portfolios as structures that help students organise knowledge and the knowledge-building process in virtual environments. These online portfolios allow learners to easily navigate their virtual learning space, collaborate at many levels, and acquire a heightened level of awareness of (inter)actions in the virtual learning environment. We report our experiences over th...

Technology enhanced learning relies on a variety of software architectures and platforms to provide different kinds of management service and enhanced instructional interaction. As e-learning support has become more complex, there is a need for virtual campuses that combine learning management systems with the services demanded by educational institutions and users. However, nowadays, the funct...

This research intends to explore students’ aspect and impact on forming virtual learning communities within online courses. A formal online course that is on the process of building virtual community is closely examined to discover students’ perceptions of learning community approach, their online performances, and how these perceptions and performances facilitate or hinder the forming of a vir...

 WHURLE (Web-Based Hierarchical Universal Reactive Learning Environment) is an adaptive virtual learning environment. Here we describe WHURLE – it’s framework, implementation and process flow. Index Terms  adaptive learning, virtual learning environments, WHURLE

This paper deals with the concept of informal learning in virtual communities on the Internet. Initially we discuss the need for continuing education and its relation with informal learning. Virtual communities are next defined and then compared to real communities. Case studies are employed, focused on some specific kinds of virtual communities. We examine how they operate, how their members i...

Virtual Reality (VR) is gaining in popularity and its added value for learning is being recognized. However, its richness in representation and manipulation possibilities may also become one of its weaknesses, as some learners may be overwhelmed and be easily lost in a virtual environment. Others may spend all their time on exploring features not relevant for their learning tasks. Therefore, be...

Intelligent pedagogical agents (IPA) are aimed to support learning in virtual worlds. Motivations for adopting IPAs in virtual worlds are to compensate for lack of human pedagogical presence, to improve student engagement, and having autonomous support. Given named challenges to realizing IPAs in virtual worlds, a proposed solution approach is to simulate IPAs with targeted scenarios with intel...

In this paper, we introduce a collaborative learning environment called Virtual Tutor for exploiting valuable digital libraries for teaching and learning. Virtual Tutor facilitates the building of online lectures and their provision. It also supports collaborative and explorative learning. We describe the architecture of the system and its functionality. A summative evaluation is conducted on t...

Evolving online virtual worlds are intensely being utilised as 3D Virtual Learning Environments (3D VLEs) by hundreds of universities worldwide. However, there is inadequate academic research depicting satisfaction of users from the environmental design factors of 3D virtual buildings used within these virtual worlds. Specifically, there is no research evidence representing satisfaction of educ...