This chapter analyzes the adequacy of two university education models according to their Information Communications Technology (ICT) usage: One model is based on the use of ICT as a cornerstone and a cohesive element of the teaching-learning process, whereas the other considers ICT a mere teaching support tool. The preliminary results obtained from a review of case studies reveal that ICT use i...

This paper deals with an interactive storytelling of game, based on Campbells heroes journey. It begins by introducing Campbell analysis and then presents how this model has been transformed in order to support for interactive storytelling. Then, it shows how this model can be used for educational games. It finishes by an experimentation of an implementation of this interactive storytelling in ...

UML class diagrams play a central role in modeling activities. Given the difficulty in producing high quality models, modelers must be equipped with an awareness of model design problems and the ability to identify and correct such models. In this paper we observe the role of class diagram correctness patterns as an educational instrument for improving class diagram modeling. We describe a cata...

The purpose of this article is to describe an innovative partnership among academic, community, and service to better meet the health care needs of underserved populations. The Center for Community Health Education, Research, and Service--a coalition of Boston education institutions, health services providers, and community agencies--was formed with a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Th...

Model transparency is increasingly identified as a positive or even necessary characteristic of system-dynamics-based learning environments, where model transparency is usually identified as providing modified causal-loop diagrams, equations, or verbal descriptions of a model. The theses of this presentation are: (1) Model transparency may be beneficial for some educational goals and conditions...

Web accessibility is an important topic that web designers and managers take into consideration when developing websites. Originally “web accessibility” referred to helping people with special needs have access to websites; however, now there are sets of guidelines to help make websites more accessible to different kinds of users. Guidelines like the WCAG 2.0 exist to help make the website acce...

Web-based distance learning is becoming increasingly prevalent as the Internet permeates every aspect of our culture, and many educational content management systems are now in use on the web. However, learners’ experiences of these systems are almost invariably static, with information being delivered regardless of their background or knowledge. Due to variation between learners’, it is sugges...

There are many adaptive educational systems . These systems depend mainly on the student model that stores information related to the student, including the level of knowledge the student has in concepts , Domain model which organizes the sequence and the structure of the educational materials, and also the adaptation model which performs the adaptation paln. Some of these systems use in its fu...

When a pedagogical agent system aims to provide students with interactive help, it needs to know what knowledge the student has and what goals the student is currently trying to achieve. That is, it must do both assessment and plan recognition. These modeling tasks involve a high level of uncertainty when students are allowed to follow various lines of reasoning and are not required to show all...