This paper analyzes how recommender systems can be applied to current e-learning systems to guide learners in personalized inclusive e-learning scenarios. Recommendations can be used to overcome current limitations of learning management systems in providing personalization and accessibility features. Recommenders can take advantage of standards-based solutions to provide inclusive support. To ...

The matter of a one-size-fits-all approach towards the development of culturally-relevant educational software is debated with one side arguing for internationalization and the other side arguing for localization. This paper takes a pragmatic look at the issues involved in localization and aims to shed light on the strengths and limitations of undertaking culture as a design feature. With an em...

OBJECTIVE To identify and analyse methodology and results of studies of patient education in schizophrenia. METHOD A literature search was made in the databases Medline, Excerpta Medica, Psychlit and Cinahl. RESULTS Most studies demonstrate that knowledge and compliance can be improved by educational interventions. Compliance seems to be most readily influenced by interventions including be...

Academic quality rankings are a controversial, but enduring, part of the educational landscape—controversial because not everyone agrees that the quality of a school or a programme can be quantified (Casper, 1996), and enduring because of the lack of other publicly attractive methods for comparing institutions (Sanoff, 1998). While the lack of appealing alternatives has legitimated the use of r...

Distance education has been the topic of much research in the past years. However, much of this research has been aimed at constructing distance education environments that require high-bandwidth network connections and specialized equipment. Use of these systems has so far been largely limited to a few well-funded research groups, while many educational institutions, particularly in less devel...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 N. Boulus-Rødje et al. (eds.), ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19–23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_5 Abstract We work with a multi-national network of computer clubs for families and children called come_IN. In two such clubs (located in Palestinian ...

The increase in the number of online, educational communities necessitates a good interplay between digital communities and repository tools. However, there are contradictions in the views of those setting up repositories and the users of these systems. This may potentially lead to limitations in the usefulness of repository systems. This study aims to address this problem through identificatio...

The chronic kidney disease patient is dealing with the medical problems caused by the disease and its limitations (physical activity, dialysis sessions, food and fluid restrictions or drug intake) and with the psychological and social problems that are developing during the disease stages (depression, anxiety or other psychological troubles, sexual problems linked to the libido, educational dif...

There are currently a number of models, frameworks and methodologies for serious games analysis and design that provide useful interpretations of the possibilities and limitations offered by serious games. However, these tools focus mostly on high-level aspects and requirements and do not help understand how such high-level requirements can be concretely satisfied. In this paper, we present a c...

Therapeutic and educational applications of robots have created a demand for robots showing a number of social skills. These skills include the capacity to imitate, to learn from demonstration, to interpret gestures and to recognize speech. Robot toys are an ideal platform to investigate the potential and limitations of human–robot social interactions. This paper presents Robota, a mini-humanoi...