The combination of the process of pedagogical planning within the Blended (b-)learning environment with the users’ quality of interaction ( ) with the Learning Management System (LMS) is explored here. The required (both for professors and students) is estimated by adopting a fuzzy logic-based modeling approach, namely FuzzyQoI, applied to LMS Moodle data from two academic years of two dance di...

Following the recent advances in both technology and social interaction, implementation of interactivity to large lecture rooms presents itself as a promising new methodology to improve the learning and teaching process in academia. Namely, based on the underlying ideas of Web 2.0, learners should be able to collect and share online resources during a lecture, additional communication channels ...

Uncertainty management is an important research issue in multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), especially at the conceptual design stage. The good uncertainty management can significantly improve the quality of product design. In this research, three types of uncertainties of MDO in conceptual design are analyzed, and a novel systematic approach is proposed to reduce these uncertainties....

This paper describes two different university and school collaborations featuring teachers’ and students’ use of online environments. The first example involves a classroom application of a Learning Management System (LMS) to deliver a Year 8 Studies of Society Unit on ‘Rainforests’. This example serves to capture, bracket and examine the ways in which teachers have begun to redefine teaching p...

The LMS plays a decisive role in most eLearning environments. Although they integrate many useful tools for managing eLearning activities, they must also be effectively integrated with other specialized systems typically found in an educational environment such as Repositories of Learning Objects or ePortfolio Systems. Both types of systems evolved separately but in recent years the trend is to...

TechTrends • March/April 2007 Volume 51, Number 2 The application of computers to education has a history dating back to the 1950s, well before the pervasive spread of personal computers (Reiser, 1987). With a mature history and varying approaches to utilizing computers for education, a veritable alphabet soup of terms and acronyms related to computers in education have found their way into the...

A study of a learning management system (LMS) used by two secondary school teachers to deliver a unit of work to middle-school students was conducted to examine the planning and development of a virtual learning environment (VLE) and determine the LMS’s effect on pedagogy. Data was elicited via observation of the teachers’ planning sessions, interviews and a survey rating teachers’ perceptions ...

This paper discusses ICT implementation in supporting e-Learning activities in Bina Nusantara University (UBiNus), Jakarta, Indonesia. The presentation starts with an introduction clarifying background of Multi Channel Learning application , those are UBiNus’ vision, internal factors, and external factors that becomes a consideration for its implementation. Next, clarification of Multi Channel ...

the purpose of this present study is recognizing suitable extension methods and techniques influencing utilize knowledge, attitude and skills of natural resources perimeter sustainable management of natural resources. in this research sustainable management of natures resources is to struggle for prevention of changing renewable nature resources to lands agricultural, prevention of use more fro...