Based on several new technologies, such as ubiquitous computing, ontology engineering, semantic web and grid computing, this paper proposes a kind of flexible educational platform architecture for e-learning, which is called OntoEdu. It is composed of five parts: user adaptation, automatic composition, education ontology, service module and content module, among which educational ontology is th...

In the first article in this series, which appeared in the April!June 2009 issue of IEEE MultiMedia, we presented an overview of using games in the classroom, cited several examples of this approach, and linked the use of games with various cognitive models as they relate to computing education. Most of this work, and the general effectiveness of these approaches with regard to assessment activ...

Nowadays, one of the hot issues in the agenda is, undoubtedly, the concept of Sustainable Computing. There are several technologies in the intersection of Sustainable Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Among them we may mention “Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence” and “Collaborative Smart Objects” technologies. In this paper we present our efforts in developing these technologie...

Evaluation is a fundamental issue in any education activity. It can be defined as a systematic process that collects, analyzes, and reports well-founded information about the accomplishment of educational goals in order to correctly assess how an educational programme is effective. There is a strict interaction between teaching and evaluation in any education process. Indipendently of the quali...

Co-adaptation of technology and education is a daunting challenge because of the limited resources available to individual researchers. Without keeping ITS systems runnable on the latest computing platforms, the educational technology we develop will become obsolete by default. Without keeping ITS systems current with the latest advances in experimentation and educational research, our educatio...

Titech Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) was established on the 1st of April, 2001. We are now start to consider services of the center. As a service, we plan to provide integrated educational contents such as videos of lectures and presentation materials. In this paper, we first overview current global trends of providing educational contents. Then, we propose our appro...

The computing infrastructure of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Superior has evolved from a system that depended primarily on manual effort, to a system that relies heavily on automation. No single decision mandated automation; instead, automation came about as means to manage complex deployments, provide new capabilities, and utilize scarce res...

Educational data mining is an emerging trend, concerned with developing methods for exploring the huge data that come from the educational system. This data is used to derive the knowledge which is useful in decision making. EDM methods are useful to measure the performance of students, assessment of students and study students’ behavior etc. In recent years, Educational data mining has proven ...

Technologies have become inseparable of our lives, economy, and the society as a whole. For example, clouds provide numerous computing resources that can facilitate our lives, whereas the Content Management Systems (CMSs) can provide the right content for the right user. Thus, education must embrace these emerging technologies in order to prepare citizens for the 21 st century. The research exp...

As pervasive computing is integrated incrementally with all facets of everyday life, it is reasonable to expect that its further proliferation may influence educational activities as well. Several such arguments have been thoroughly discussed in literature and several projects have been developed. However, little work has been done to investigate how pervasive computing can influence the medica...