A large amount of learning resources is available to learners on the Web. Users of these resources are often discouraged by the time spent in finding and assembling relevant resources to support their learning goals, and these users often face the information overload problem [4]. Personalisation within e-learning would allow the learning abilities and preferences of individual learners to be t...

This study examined the effectiveness of distance education compared with campus based learning among nursing students. Distance education in nursing curricula is increasing. Academic nurse leaders must demonstrate the effectiveness of distance learning. This study is unique in that two cohorts, distance learners and campus learners, were taught synchronously by the same faculty member. Quantit...

This study investigates whether or not effective learners used learning strategies differently from less effective learners in quantity as well as in quality. A total of 164 tertiary-level students learning English in Korea participated in the quantitative study, and eight students out of 164, four effective learners and four less effective earners, were chosen in the follow-up qualitative stud...

Learning in multimedia environments is hard because it requires learners to actively comprehend and integrate information across diverse sources and modalities. Selfexplanation is an effective learning strategy that helps learners develop deep understanding of complex phenomena and could be used to support learning from multimedia. Researchers have established the benefits of self-explaining ac...

This paper addresses the question of the domain-specificity of learning biases for phonological processes. In two artificial grammar learning experiments we explore the role of learning biases in shaping the distribution of phonological patterns across the world’s languages. In Experiment 1, we demonstrate that learners are biased toward phonological patterns that occur in natural language, as ...

In this paper, an adaptive e-Learning System based Intelligent Agents, IAELS, is proposed. The design concept is to use intelligent agent community to help the learners finding out the adapting courses and learning path. The system analyzes the causes of ineffective learning by portfolio and test-portfolio, and then provides personal courses to remedy learners’ learning difficulties through the...

This study designed a chatbot system, Confucius, as a MSN virtual learning companion to examine how specific application design variables within educational software affect the learning process of subjects as defined by the cognitive continuum of field-dependent and field-independent learners. 104 college students participated in a 12 week Microsoft certification course that used Confucius as a...

Most Learning Management Systems (LMS) focus on providing rich learning materials to the learners but rarely offer possibilities to monitor and analyze their learning processes. However metacognitive strategies argue that learners can improve their learning performances by monitoring their activities, especially in the context of Project-Based Learning (PBL). Our work consists in designing tool...

To make online learning more productive, software agent technology has been applied to provide services for learners in order to assist them to construct knowledge in constructivist ways. This paper is focused on the application of software agents in assisting learners to dynamically adjust learning processes. Unlike pedagogical agents, the agents in this application do not hold domain knowledg...