This paper intends to contribute some thoughts to the discussion of the utility of storage systems in the activities of the schools. After explaining the concept of SNA, its functionalities and the benefits obtained in its use, the problems of storage systems management and their application in the domain schools’ activities are focused. The need of analyzing actual trends in the field of stora...

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Nowadays, the use of computers and Internet in education is on the increase. Web-based educational systems (WES) are now widely used to both provide support to distance learning and to complement the traditional teaching process in the classroom. To be very useful in the classroom, one of the characteristics expected in a WES is the ability to be aware of students’ behaviors so that it can take...

Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems are sophisticated applications that offer a solution to the shortcomings of their non-adaptive counterparts, attempting to provide individualized and customized learning, tailored to the learner’s needs. Even though substantial research and development of such systems has taken place the past years, they are still designed and developed from scratch. The r...

Currently, adaptive educational hypermedia systems (AEHS) are described with nonuniform methods, depending on the specific view on the system, the application, or other parameters. There is no common language for expressing functionality of AEHS, hence these systems are difficult to compare and analyze. In this paper we investigate how a logical description can be employed to characterize adapt...

A well-known challenge of adaptive educational systems is the need to develop intelligent content, which is very time and expertise consuming. In traditional approaches a teacher is kept at a distance from intelligent authoring. This paper advocates the involvement of teachers in creating intelligent content. We are presenting an approach to the development of intelligent content as well as an ...

In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for assessment, developed through the web-based module named PASS-Personalized ASSessment, which can be integrated in an Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System to provide personalized assessment. PASS estimates learner’s performance through multiple assessment options pre-test, self-assessment and summative assessment tailored to learner’s res...

In November 1989, there was a meeting of people who had been involved in helping to bring about fundamental restructuring in public schools. This chapter reports on one person's view of the results of that "Asilomar Conference." It describes 15 acti\.ities that appear to enhance the success of systemic restructuring, but more importantly it describes principles or guidelines that appear to enha...