The paper describes adaptive methods developed in the area of adaptive educational hypermedia according to a simple taxonomy schema based on three dimensions: What components of the educational system are adapted? To what features of the user and the current context does the system adapt? Why does the system adapt? Based on this taxonomy several classical methods of adaptive educational hyperme...

The 1 international conference on “Educational Data Mining” (EDM) took place in Montreal in 2008 while the 1 international conference on “Learning Analytics and Knowledge” (LAK) took place in Banff in 2011. Since then the fields have grown and established themselves with an annual international conference, a journal and an association each, and gradually increase their overlapping. This paper b...

“Interactivity”, a key buzzword of the information age, has become an essential goal of many educational, entertainment and eCommerce Web development efforts. JavaScript-, Javaand Shockwave-applications promise higher involvement of the learner/user, more sophisticated user interactions (beyond the usual hypertext navigation), and Web services that can adapt to the user's skills and preferences...

This paper describes conceptual difficulties that may be experienced by engineering faculty as they become engineering education researchers. Observation, survey, and assessment data collected at the 2005 NSF-funded Rigorous Research in Engineering Education workshop were systematically analyzed to uncover the five difficulties encountered by engineering faculty learning to design rigorous educ...

There is warning about ignoring the environment, in particular solid waste and the problem recently has been taken into consideration by the world (1). Since the generation process has a principal role in waste management, the generators place should not be ignored (2). Fast population growth, industrial development, technological advance, and human desire to increase material consumption and f...

The paper describes a classification system for adaptive methods developed in the area of adaptive educational hypermedia based on four dimensions: What components of the educational system are adapted? To what features of the user and the current context does the system adapt? Why does the system adapt? How does the system get the necessary information? Based on this taxonomy several classical...

This paper stresses the importance of usability tests in user acceptance, performance, and satisfaction. We refer to methods, techniques, and evaluators used in usability testing. Then, we focus on the importance of planning a test and conducting it, attending to ethical issues. Finally, we describe usability tests conducted to an hyperdocument.

BACKGROUND With increasing acceptance of premarital sex among young Chinese women, the rates of unintended pregnancies and induced abortions are becoming alarmingly high, suggesting the needs of educating women with adequate contraceptive knowledge and providing them with accessible contraceptive services. Previous studies have shown that knowledge and attitudes towards contraception could be m...