This paper presents the BRENHET application, which introduces a new concept in searching for educational resources by using a learning object paradigm that describes these resources. The application is composed of a complete agentbased architecture that implements the concept of federated search. It can search different repositories in parallel, and is based on abstraction layers between the re...

Remote Patient Management Systems (RPM) besides monitoring the health conditions of patients provide them with different information services that currently are predefined and follow one-size-fits-all paradigm to a large extend. In this work we focus on the problem of knowledge discovery and patient modeling by mining educational data, motivational and instructional feedback provided to patient...

The field of assisted reproduction is renowned for its remarkable advances and constant pushing forward of research boundaries in an effort to offer innovative and effective methods for enhancing fertility. Accompanying these advances, however, are physiological, psychological, and bioethical consequences that must be considered. These concomitant advances and consequences make assisted reprodu...

Department of Educational Foundations and Instructional Technology, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. Nigeria ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The dynamic nature of the society is obviously, part of the driving forces which makes curriculum review to become inevitable. The review process ensures that the event...

Learning objects (LOs) can be defined as resources that are reusable, digital with the aim of fulfilling learning objectives (or expectations). Educators, both at the individual and institutional levels, are cautioned about the fact that LOs are to be processed through a proper development process. Who should be involved in the LO development process and how should we train them to become profi...

The traditional control curricula organization is not adequate for the new generations of students. This paper proposes the challenge to change completely the sequence of traditional control subjects. Firstly it proposes to develop control as a branch of information processing sciences. Paradigms for information are proposed: integral-differential paradigm, data-paradigm, linguistic paradigm. T...

Hypermedia Storytelling allows the integration of edutainment aspects on multiple levels. In addition to directly integrating the information to learn into the story, digital media allow to link story elements that create interest in a particular topic to related background information sites. On another level not only the reception of a story can be used to transmit educational content, but als...

Creative Technology is a new BSc programme at the University of Twente. Its goal is to design novel applications and products to improve daily life of people, with ICT as design material. Applications range from everyday life to health support, from playing and entertainment to serious gaming and socializing, from working and learning to art, while using instruments of stimulation, motivation, ...

Present research covers a systematic study of Institutional Digital Repository in Jadavpur University. This study has shown that the large number of people needs a global awareness and understanding of institutional digital repository and different aspects associated with it, such as, software, sources for user’s awareness, motivators for developing a repository, demand of the users in changing...

The Teacher Education Institutions plays a crucial role in improving the system of education by training, educating and inspiring the future student teachers. A teacher requires understanding and mastering of skills to make his classroom interactive. For this purpose the exercise of instructional designing or lesson planning becomes very essential. Although innovative lesson plans based on beha...