The support of technological resources in teaching and learning has contributed to make them more efficient and enjoyable. Through this support has become quite common to use media resources before explored only for entertainment for educational purposes, among them the TV. The interactive Digital TV (iDTV) provides resources that make possible the development of a plethora of educational appli...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has transformed the whole world to a global village. Acquiring and maintaining essential ICT infrastructure has become a great challenge especially in education sector. Being a human resource development sector, it needs to use expensive infrastructure more effectively not only for providing education but also for its transactional applications. Wi...

ii Preface The AIED'05 session of the SW-EL'05 workshop focuses on Semantic Web-based knowledge representation and engineering approaches and methods for the needs of intelligent learning systems and discusses issues related to their use for content and knowledge components specification, effective intelligent courseware construction and modelling the learner. The following topics are addressed...

being one of the most effective tools for educational system improvement, educational technology plays an important role in learning facilitation. in order to have a deeper, more effective and long lasting learning impact, this systematic approach designs, implements and evaluates the teaching- learning process, using specific purposes, new methods of psychology and communication sciences and a...

The sharable and reusable multimedia learning objects are very important to avoid repeated efforts among users. LOM-like standards have been widely used to support resource managements and applications. This paper describes the differences between LOM-like standards and educational needs of multimedia learning objects. We classify multimedia learning object types based on educational features a...

Factors influencing secondary educational attainment (staying in high school) are well characterized, but several shortcomings of current educational attainment theory preclude a real-time and wide-scope understanding of the issue. Further insight could be provided by text analytic technology. In this article, the authors review the current status of secondary educational attainment and its ass...

Byrnes and Fox present a thoughtful article on a neglected but important topic for educational psychologists. Some major contributions are their emphasis on the need for consistency in educational theory and neuroscience research, the lack of automatic correspondence between neuroscience research and educational applications, the need for educator awareness of neuroscience research, the importa...

This paper presents a propose for support learning in a pervasive computing environment. It is composed of educational service agents (ESA) and a pervasive personal pedagogical agent (P3A). ESA will support educational applications using the pervasive environment ISAM. Agents will be accessed through P3A, which shall always be with the learner (the agent moves to devices that the learner is usi...

Many educators have attempted to implement a blog in educational contexts to enhance the communication environment among students and teachers. However, it is uncertain as to why traditional computer-mediated communication (CMC) applications should be replaced with blogs. It is time to comprehensively explore the effects of educational blogs by considering the CMC tools. This paper reviews prio...

An educational resource targeting children with learning difficulties should be based on special teaching aids to achieve its educational purposes. Teaching supported by new technologies should guarantee the accessibility of the contents introduced over the web, as well as through the use of software applications. In this paper, we present a methodology for creating such resources and its appli...