Advances in electronic technologies offer e-learning applications the possibility to become skillful and acquire knowledge on a task. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First to review papers related to usability methods and learning theories currently used to design e-learning applications. Secondly, to draw on the author’s experience from carrying out a test with a web-based testing applic...

The role language has in human learning has been discussed in the context of its impact on culture through African American communities. A strong link between thinking and language through the framework of question asking was reported. This essay improves upon Crogman and Trebeau’s (Crogman and Trebeau Crogman, 2016) Generated Question Learning Model by incorporating language and comprehension ...

This paper proposes a modeling framework for learning activities centered on the design of their components (pedagogical instruments). The learning activity is represented as learning object where the structural components are the reusable objects representing the pedagogical instruments. This purpose presents a new current of learning activity design based on activity theory where its design m...

This paper argues that transparency promotes interactivity and participation in collaborative Web 2.0 learning environments. Teaching with transparency requires a learner–centered pedagogy for research, writing, and the production of new knowledge in open communities. Transparency is a catalyst for interaction and participation that supports open learning in multiple disciplines and institution...

This study discusses student’s experiences on Web-based learning in a Helsinki Virtual Open University HEVI [01] environment with the help of a new modeling technique, Bayesian networks. The advantage of Bayesian network models relies both on improved modeling capabilities and in the possibility to use such models to implement new integrative modules that enable interactive activities (e.g. tes...