This paper describes how a multi-agent, intelligent learning environment can provide adaptive tutoring based on learner modelling through Web Services. The system is called Web F-SMILE and is meant to help novice users learn how to manipulate the file store of their personal computer. The system has assigned an agent, called Learner Modelling (LM) Agent, to constantly observe the user and colle...

Individual differences in learners’ learning styles can have a significant effect on their acceptance of collaboration technologies to facilitate the sharing of learning information in technology-based collaborative learning. There is, however, a lack of understanding of the impact of learning styles on the acceptance of open learner models as a collaboration technology for information sharing....

In this paper, we propose a framework for scaffolding conflict awareness to pull the trigger of reflection in a metacognitive process. If a learner only monitors his/her action or results of it, he/she may not reflect them. When a learner finds something strange, the learner is motivated to carry out the reflection. To feel its strangeness, the learner should know the normal situation. Then the...

This study aims at empirically measuring a universal criterion for materials evaluation, i.e., learning opportunities, in a locally- and a globally-designed materials. Adopting the conceptual framework of sociocultural theory and its conceptualization of learning as participation (Donato, 2000), the researchers utilized the methodological power of conversation analysis to examine how opportunit...

Natural language processing (NLP) has long been used to automatically analyze language produced by language learners, typically aimed at providing individualized feedback and learner modeling in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning systems (cf. Heift & Schulze 2007). While much interesting research has been reported, it is difficult to determine the state of the art for the automatic...

Nowadays, we are witnesses of a steadily increasing research interest in design, modeling, construction and practical experiments with adaptable e-learning platforms and tools. Adaptive Web based multimedia information authoring, control and delivery tends to be more and more promising as its offer unlimited level of personalization and satisfaction of goals and preferences of particular learne...

It is common to think of a "learner model" as a global description of a student's understanding of domain content. We propose a notion of learner model where the emphasis is on the modelling process rather than the global description. In this re-formulation there is no one single learner model in the traditional sense, but a virtual infinity of potential models, computed "just in time" about on...

In the context of E-learning, adaptive systems are more specialized and focus on the adaptation of learning content and the presentation of this content. The adaptive E-learning system focuses on how the profile data is learned by the learner and pays attention to learning activities, cognitive structures and the context of the learning material. The system controls the process of collecting da...