eLearning plays an important role in educating the people across the world. With the advancements in the WWW and communication technologies the developing countries like India harness the possibilities of creating educated communities. However the lack of proper learning content and appropriate support for the learners suppress the growth of eLearning. This paper proposes Collaborative eLearnin...

Attendance at traditional face–to-face workshops for New Zealand sheep and beef farmers has been dropping steadily over the past few years. FeedSmart, an industry and government funded research program, was charged with identifying the most effective learning approaches to use to assist New Zealand farmers to feed plan more effectively. As a result of investigating the ways farmers preferred to...

As part of a longitudinal analysis of user experience in an eLearning system, this paper reports on an exploratory study that investigated the relationship between patterns of usage and measures of student outcomes. The data was collected over a semester of an undergraduate and postgraduate course on Information Systems of 135 students working in a blended learning environment. A survey was als...

This paper discusses Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH), which is at present a hot topic of research and an important aim for commercial educational systems. Section 2 considers generally current AEH advances and summarises main directions of research. Section 3 presents a project where an adaptive Computer-Aided Language Learning (CALL) environment was developed. Section 4 focuses on studen...

Student performance can be hindered by large class sizes, a lack of participation, and sense identity, all which detrimental to student success. eLearning solutions give chances solve these issues students participate in self-confidently their learning activities. Lessons run as smoothly possible no matter how many participants are them far they from in-person peers thanks various techniques su...

Given the huge amount of static and dynamic content created for eLearning tasks, the major challenge for extending their use is to improve the effectiveness of retrieval and accessibility by making use of Learning Management Systems. The aim of the European project Language Technology for eLearning is to tackle this problem by providing Language Technology based functionalities and by integrati...

The paper presents business rules approach to the development of web services based elearning systems. The main contribution of this approach is a centralized way to capture, automate, manage and process learning knowledge in the form of rules, and to use it within e-learning system. The generic elearning system architecture has been extended by integrating business supporting business processe...

Many eLearning approaches tend to separate learning activities from everyday work. This working paper presents a case study where closer integration between learning and work was achieved by rather simple means. The case study points out significant opportunities for enriched integration, benefiting course design, organisational knowledge management, and information system customisation. We the...

Elearning has grown rapidly in importance for institutions and has been largely facilitated through the “walled garden” of the virtual learning environment. Meanwhile many students are creating their own personal learning environments by combining the various Web 2.0 services they find most useful. Cloud computing offers new opportunities for institutions to provide dynamic and up-to-date Inter...

It is important to understand that while the standards these organizations define are, in fact, labeled as standards, they generally start out as a specification, which is a detailed, exact statement of the functional requirements and particulars for something to be built, installed, or manufactured. For a specification to reach the status of an accredited standard, it must receive some sort of...