background: to compare the effectiveness of basnef and classic educational models to improve the assertion skill level of high school boy students. methods: the 60 high school male students from shiraz city, fars province iran, were participated in this study. they were randomly divided in two groups (groups a and b). the group a attended in designed educational planning based on basnef model a...

In order to exchange learning resources via educational mediators, resources need to be described with metadata in a coherent manner. Metadata for learning resources has become a widely discussed research topic, but the concept is still too loosely defined to provide guidelines for its use. With this paper we aim to contribute to the design of metadata models, which serve as vehicles for defini...

The interoperability of educational systems, encouraged by the development of specifications, standards and tools related to the Semantic Web is limited to the exchange of information in domain and student models. High system interoperability requires that a common framework be defined that represents the functional essence of educational systems. To address this need, we developed a generic mo...

Authoring of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia is a complex activity requiring the combination of a range of design and validation techniques. We demonstrate how Adaptive Educational Hypermedia can be transformed into CAVIAr courseware validation models allowing for its validation. The model-based representation and analysis of different concerns and model-based mappings and transformations are k...