The use of computer systems to aid clinical decision making is growing. Besides clinical practice, computer applications, decision support systems or technologies can be used during dentistry and periodontology learning. A research was made using 30 searching expressions, based on MeSH Terms. A total of 17 articles were selected from the initial 249. Dental Students’ Ability to Assess Gingival ...

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), understood here as online systems supporting interactions between and amongst learners and teachers as well as access to resources and activities, have long been held to provide a range of benefits in further and higher education. For 2008, UK Government policy is far all pupils to have access to an online learning space, for many provided through a learnin...

In June 2011, the major search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex) announced the new innovation of schema.org. However, there is a clear need to integrate Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) with the wider Web and maintain its learning contents freely open in order to support the sharing and reuse of learning resources. This paper focuses on our proposal to schema.org by proposing new vo...

After the arrival of the web in the 1990s, educational institutions started to maintain their learning materials within Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), as the web is a significant source of material for many students and teachers. However, there has been less development in the current VLEs in the past few years, which remain heavily centred on single institutions even though the web has ...

Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), such as Moodle, are purpose-built platforms in which teachers and students interact to exchange, review, and submit learning material and information. In this paper, we examine a complex VLE dataset from a large Irish university in an attempt to characterize student behavior with respect to deadlines and grades. We demonstrate that, by clustering activity pr...

This paper presents the results of a study evaluating student perceptions of online assignment submission. 47 students submitted assignments and received feedback via features within the Virtual Learning Environment BlackboardTM. The students then completed questionnaires comparing their experience of online submission and feedback with traditional methods. Results indicated that 88% of student...

This paper examines elements from Piaget’s and Scherer’s theories that are able to offer subsidies for the specification of the affective aspects involved in Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). The affective dimension is characterized by the moods manifested during interactions in virtual space by affective portion of psychological subject. To figure moods out is a way to personalize the pedag...

One educational development approach at Liverpool John Moores University (JMU) from it’s Business School (LBS) is that of supported Virtual Learning Environments (VLE’s) to complement traditional teaching. This paper focuses on recent work at LBS concerning a Masters module that has had its VLE support progressively developed since 1998. Module delivery is flexible in that it is variably credit...

Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is becoming the core of scientific activities addressing nature complexity. To tackle complexity, we need to integrate heterogeneous formalisms in the same model. Models then become multimodels. Furthermore, M&S softwares have to assist take into account the M&S activity cycle, i.e. modellers to design and to implement models, to define experimental frames and to a...

This paper describes the potential benefits of VLE Library system integration to learners, libraries and content providers and examines the role of emerging authentication technologies in facilitating the practical realisation of such integration. It reports on the activities of the 4i Project (Interoperable Institutional, Integrated Implementation) led by the University of Ulster in collaborat...