This paper describes adaptive e-learning systems with learning portfolio for IT education. Our project is one of Modern Good Practice (MGP) which is supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. We have developed the framework of adaptive e-learning systems which is called POLITE. POLITE has a curriculum-based learning environment based on SCORM2004 and e...

In this simultaneous election, legislative elections for the regions, provinces, and center as well election of presidential pairs. There is an assumption that with implementation executive (Candidates President-Vice President), there appears to be imbalance between Candidates President legislature so contest gets more attention than election. The public quite enthusiastic about welcoming a par...

Educational technology advances quickly, with new tools and services becoming available. Consequently, users are always trying to keep pace with these new developments. Technology discussions are often most influenced by the needs of experts, since these users are more likely to be the pioneers of new technology. In this paper, we report data from a universitywide survey of faculty, teaching as...

Meditation practice is difficult to access because of its countless forms of appearances originating from the complexity of cultures it has to serve. This makes a suitable categorization for scientific use almost impossible. However, empirical data suggest that different forms of meditation show similar steps of development in terms of their neurophysiological correlates. Some electrophysiologi...

The attitudes of the speaker during a verbal interaction are affects linked to the speaker intentions, and are built by the language and the culture. They are a very large part of the affects expressed during an interaction, voluntary controlled, This paper describes several experiments which show that some attitudes own both to Japanese and French and are implemented in perceptively similar pr...

This paper considers the development of a violin teaching aid, called ViTool, which is based on violin pedagogy, sound analysis, and comparison of beginner and good player recordings. It is a computer based teaching aid and will ultimately consist of at least four task dependent tools. Typical beginner faults have been identified and features, that best describe them for classification purposes...