Cloud computing technologies have changed the way applications are developed and accessed. They are aimed at running applications as services over the Internet on a scalable infrastructure. Many applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases and more can all be accessed from a web browser, while the software and files are housed in the cloud. Educational institutio...

This paper presents two prototype software architectures that are used for building applications that are used for enhancing the on-line educational environments. The software architectures are based on the concept of educational data/knowledge flow. The presented software architectures are designed with the goal of setting up an infrastructure whose implementation will offer functionalities fo...

The management of the infrastructure and content of the World Wide Web is a growing problem for the development of web-based educational applications (WbEA) and is hidden beneath the tremendous benefits of the web. Moreover, such systems undergo more frequent and quite extensive changes in their development and operational period because the client’s perception (either the learner, the teacher ...

A number of new communications technologies have emerged in recent years that have been largely regarded and intended for personal and recreational use. However, these “conversational technologies” and “constructivist learning tools,” coupled with the power and reach of the Internet, have made them viable choices for both educational learning and knowledge-oriented applications. The technologie...

By augmenting the real world with virtual information, Augmented Reality (AR) provides new possibilities for education. Although AR is frequently applied in educational environments, the value of AR applications in these environments is not yet investigated in its entirety. Additionally, educators face different directions of AR applications, which may differ regarding their potential benefits....

In this work we address the problem of the design, development and maintenance of Web educational software. In our approach, the Web is conceived as a hypermedia system with “very long” links and the markup language as a tool that can capture the most essential features of an educational application. We think that beyond HTML, mark-up languages based on SGML can be used with a double purpose in...

Educational software has been the object of continuous research globally. It has been widely acknowledged that computer assisted applications, which are made for educational purposes can be very beneficial for the students. In order to do that, such software has to be structured in such a way as to be highly adaptive and individualised to the needs of each student. The latest findings in this f...

Educational web-based systems exemplify the increasing need for personalisation. Applications that adapt to individual users need a model of the user that contains as accurate data as possible. On the web, learners use multiple educational systems and spend their time over many applications: these are individually limited in their user modelling but can gain from joining forces. This boils down...

We present a web-based TTS facility, which will eventually provide for the major dialects of Irish. It, along with an ancillary toolkit of language resources, is increasingly being exploited in diverse teaching/learning environments. Further synthesis-based interactive educational platforms are described which are geared to specific learning tasks. These educational applications facilitate a de...