Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems are sophisticated applications that offer a solution to the shortcomings of their non-adaptive counterparts, attempting to provide individualized and customized learning, tailored to the learner’s needs. Even though substantial research and development of such systems has taken place the past years, they are still designed and developed from scratch. The r...

This paper presents the design and development of WeShare, a social annotation application that allows educators to search, create and enrich descriptions of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools from the Web of Data. As many others social applications, We-Share allows educators to publish information about the ICT tools they use in their classrooms. Further, We-Share also enab...

The new challenge for designers and Human Computer Interaction researchers is to develop software tools and applications for effective e-learning. Usability is one of the most important aspects of software applications. However, in practice, not much attention is given to this issue during testing. Evaluators often do not have the knowledge, instruments and/or time available to handle usability...

Students who use educational web-based applications aim at learning knowledge in chosen area. However, their level of knowledge and interests are different. For effective learning it is necessary to provide an individual approach to each student. Educational application should recommend students learning materials that are easily understandable according their level of knowledge and are interes...

This chapter discusses how the use of pedagogical agents in educational applications may influence the relative efficiency of instructional conditions, a concept proposed by Paas & Merriënboer (1993), which combines the measures of mental effort and task performance to determine, for example, how efficient certain settings are regarding their potential to promote learning. The authors describe ...

This paper explores the potential intersection of two fascinating and increasingly burgeoning fields: Swarm Intelligence and Educational Data Mining. A thorough review of the existing works in both fields has revealed a lack of Swarm Intelligence applications in Educational Data Mining, despite its successful applications in other data mining domain. Consequently, this paper launches the inters...

1 Carlos Tobar is exchange visitor with the L3D – Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA, on leave from PUCCampinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil (e-mail: [email protected]). 2 Ivan Ricarte is with DCA/FEEC/UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, 13083-970 Brazil (e-mail: [email protected]). Abstract – Several models and frameworks have been proposed for adaptive hype...