Collaborating closely with a tenth-grade science teacher, we designed a Web-Based Learning Environment (Web-LE) to improve the students’ motivation to learn science. Factors believed to enhance intrinsic motivation (challenge, control, curiosity, and fantasy) were integrated into the instructional design of the Web-based learning tool. The Web-LE was implemented in the teacher’s tenth-grade cla...

there has been a recent development and explosion of interest among academicians across a wide range of disciplines in the use of virtual class room. utilization of the virtual class room as a laboratory experimentation for teaching and learning has increased significantly in recent years as development tools for web based applications have become easier to use and computers have become more ca...

introduction: in this study, the authors aimed to examine the effects of cooperative learning methods using web quest and team-based learning on students’ self-direction, self-regulation, and academic achievement. methods: this is a comparative study of students taking a course in mental health and psychiatric disorders. in two consecutive years, a group of students were trained using the web q...

In the last years, knowledge technologies have been exploited for self-regulation functionalities inside elearning systems. The definition of integrated system suitably scaffolding learners to improve their experience is still lacking though. In this work, we propose an innovative Web-based educational environment that sustains metacognitive self-regulated learning processes upon Semantic Web a...

A suitable e-learning system management needs to carry out a web-information system in order to allow integrated fruition of data and metadata concerning the activities typical of elearning environment. The definition of a “web information system” for e-learning takes advantage of the potentialities of Web technologies both as for the access to metadata present on the several platforms, and as ...

A recommender system in an e-learning context is a software agent that tries to ”intelligently” recommend actions to a learner based on the actions of previous learners. This recommendation could be an on-line activity such as doing an exercise, reading posted messages on a conferencing system, or running an on-line simulation, or could be simply a web resource. These recommendation systems hav...

Web-based learning programs enable learners to browse web pages individually through a predefined path or a personalized routine. However, they provide less social context and cooperative context for cooperation. The main idea presented in this poster is the concept of “informal cooperative learning program”. It is defined as a set of structured learning steps. Learners can go through all steps...

Creation of the reusable learning content in the process of work is a challenging but promising trend in e-learning and knowledge management. While the main research focus nowadays is concentrated on the extraction of the tacit knowledge and experience using wikis and blogs, the fact is ignored that a lot of useful process-relevant information already exists on the web or in the enterprise docu...