Distance education in Ukraine has undergone significant growth over the past two years. It provided opportunities for millions of undergraduate and graduate students to continue learning a variety forms ways, including online learning, internships, competitions, research, dissertation defenses, field experience reports, seminars forums quarantine. In contrast Ukraine, according results survey s...

Adaptive and intelligent Web-based educational systems (AIWBES) provide an alternative to the traditional “just-put-it-on-the-Web” approach in the development of Web-based educational courseware (Brusilovsky & Miller, 2001). AIWBES attempt to be more adaptive by building a model of the goals, preferences and knowledge of each individual student and using this model throughout the interaction wi...

In this paper, the concept of collaborative intelligent educational system is presented. Different knowledge representation models are compared in the context of their use in collaborative intelligent educational systems. Advantages of semantic networks for knowledge representation in such systems are described. Main advantages of extended semantic networks are shown and a set of basic operatio...

After more than ten years of research aiming at defining methods and techniques to deliver personalized instruction, Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems have not made the jump into real practice systems. Reasons for this include the complexity of their development, their use of exclusive methods for defining adaptivity and educational elements, and their lack of interoperation amongst cours...

Most current Adaptive Educational Systems model cognitive characteristics of students such as learning goals, knowledge and preferences. However, motivation obviously plays a key role in education. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art regarding adaptation to motivation. Open research issues that need to be addressed are identified .

Constructing ontologies in educational design is not really new. The specification of educational goals is what is called now a days an ontology. Although content has always been considered a crucial factor in education, the emphasis in educational research has been on form, as is also pointed out by [Mizogichi et al., 1997]. Ontological engineering for constructing educational systems may look...

Do you remember the moment when just beginning to learn a programming language and you got stuck in writing a program? You had a hard time figuring out what the syntax of an expression should be, which function you should use, or what structures your program should follow. You wished there was someone looking over your shoulder giving you the answer. It would have saved you hours and hours wand...

The goal of this paper is to illustrate the beneficial role of ontologies in achieving efficient authoring support for Intelligent Educational Systems (IES). We present our ideas within an ontology-driven framework EASE offering power with respect to the functionality, generic approach for its support of instructional strategies and user-friendliness in its interaction with the author. A centra...

This document is a survey in the research area of User Modeling (UM) for the specific field of Adaptive Learning. The aims of this document are: To define what it is a User Model; To present existing and well known User Models; To analyze the existent standards related with UM; To compare existing systems. In the scientific area of User Modeling (UM), numerous research and developed systems alr...