This paper presents an interactive educational environment for use over both in situ and distancebased modalities of teaching. Several technological issues relating to the design and development of the distributed virtual learning environment have also been raised. The PROVIDE framework proposed in this paper is a seamless distributed environment for continuous interaction between teaching and ...

The NeoMuseum in Yoshino, Japan is a prototype for a chidrens media museum, an experiment in collaborative research with the goal of creating a multimedia-based learning environment for children. The name NeoMuseurn reflects the goal of exploring new roles for childrens museums made possible by new educatlonal technologies. The purpose of the NeoMuseum is to design and develop socially shared e...

1. Introduction Web-based Course Management Software (CMS) provides a single portal for students and teaching staff to collaborate in an elaborate interactive environment. This portal provides tools for online submissions, examinations, student performance monitoring, discussion threads, real-time chat, and electronic mail. In higher education, these facilities are becoming more common for deli...

Animated characters are beginning to be used as pedagogical tools, as they have the power to capture students’ attention and foster their motivation for discovery and learning. However, in order for them to be widely employed and accepted as a learning resource, they must be easy to use and friendly. In this paper we present an architecture that facilitates building inte...

in present competitive business environment, learning organization is an important competitive advantage. along the time with its changes, cause the organization has to pay more attention to learning for improving their quality process more than the past. these changes has affected on different organizations, such as conservation environment organization (ceo). according to the monitoring role ...

With the recent emergence of open source course management systems, learning support infrastructures have received increased attention. More and more organisations adopt these systems to provide their educational services. Often, existing, locally developed learning support software – ranging from delivery support to multimedia content – have to be integrated into these new systems. We will rep...

This paper addresses the problem of the acquisition of robot’s behaviors for real environments. It insists on the interest of learning behaviors during robot’s interaction with the environment under the control of a human tutor. The paper presents a learning model conceived to synthesize behaviors from a set of few examples and relying on a distributed representation of perception/action relati...

My Science Tutor (MyST) is an intelligent tutoring system designed to improve science learning by elementary school students through conversational dialogs with a virtual science tutor in an interactive multimedia environment. Marni, a lifelike 3-D character, attempts to elicit self-expression from students, process their spoken explanations to assess understanding, and scaffold learning by ask...