Adaptive Hypermedia Educational Systems, AHES, represent an emerging technology that provides a unique advantage over traditional Web-based Educational Systems; that is the ability to adapt to the user's needs, goals, preferences etc. These systems are increasingly becoming part of mainstream education, yet there does not exist a disciplined way of designing them most of the development is ad-h...

Past work with multiple input devices in low resource educational environments has largely been motivated by patterns of dominance that emerge when a large group of students is asked to share a single computer — inevitably, some students, at the cost of others, derive higher value out of the experience. Conversely, concern has been expressed about the lack of social learning and collaboration t...

Despite rapid advances, modeling a variety of instructional designs to support variations in teaching and learning during the design educational technologies is still an open challenge. In this paper, we propose patterns based approach for address This contrast with existing literature that focuses either on education or software, not both. The core idea our leverage knowledge connect it softwa...

This paper reports on an empirical and descriptive investigation into how teachers and learners use technology in three prototypical learning activities in a higher educational online learning environment. Additionally, the relationship between the educational uses of technology and the overall educational patterns of interaction between teachers and learners, and among learners themselves was ...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about educational disparities in deaths from specific cancer sites is incomplete. Even more scant is information about time trends in educational patterns in specific cancer mortality. This study examines educational inequalities in Norway 1971-2002 for mortality in lung and larynx, colorectal, stomach, melanoma, prostate, breast and cervix uteri cancer. METHODS A data fi...

This article analyses patterns and trends in the educational assortative mating of Spanish women born between 1920 and 1969 using data from the 2001 Spanish Census. By means of loglinear models we examine the following issues: i) intensity and changes in educational assortative mating patterns; ii) crossing barriers across educational thresholds and iii) degree of symmetry between male and fema...