Adaptive e-Learning is a process where learning contents are delivered to learners adaptively, namely, the appropriate contents are delivered to the learners in an appropriate way at an appropriate time based on the learners’ needs, knowledge, preferences and other characteristics. Social e-Learning is a process where connections are made among likeminded learners, so they can achieve learning ...

Feedback is the cornerstone of effective clinical teaching. Without feedback, good practice is not reinforced, poor performance is not corrected, and the path to improvement not identified. Though teachers believe that they give regular and sufficient feedback, often this is not how it is perceived by learners. Feedback is about providing information to studentswith the intentionof narrowing th...

Adaptive hypermedia systems are beneficial to e-learners in tailoring content to individual characteristics such as prior knowledge, learning preferences, etc. However, unlike popular non-adaptive learning management systems such as Moodle and Blackboard they do not support social connectedness by allowing communication with other learners. This can lead to feelings of isolation amongst learner...

Languages differ systematically in how to encode a motion event. English characteristically expresses manner in verb root and path in verb particle; in Chinese, varied aspects of motion, such as manner, path and cause, can be simultaneously encoded in a verb compound. This study investigates whether typological differences, as such, influence how first and second language learners conceptualize...

This paper discusses an integrated approach to information handling and knowledge management in web-based open-ended learning environments. It supports both learners and instructors in information structuring and taskoriented processing and usage. AIMS, a web-based intelligent tool for task-based information and performance support is implemented to exemplify the theoretical assumptions of this...

Comparative studies of forward and backward chaining have led some to suggest that sensitivity to each teaching procedure may be idiosyncratic across learners and tasks. The purposes of the current study were threefold. First, we assessed differential sensitivity to each chaining procedure within children when presented with multiple learning tasks of similar content but different complexity. S...

Résumé: In research on the open learner model, more and more ILE offer to learners interactive activities on their profile. These activities are based on the visualization of learners profiles: in particular, it may be a simple observation of a profile, but also the negotiation of this profile content, or a comparison with another learner profile. However, the visualization of profiles proposed...

Recommendation plays a vital role in adaptive educational systems. Learners often face large body of educational materials including not only texts (explanations), but also interactive content such as exercises and questions. These require various knowledge levels of multiple topics. For effective learning, personalized recommendation of the most appropriate items according to the learner's cur...

the present study-both qualitative and quantitative--explored fifty efl learners’ preferences for receiving error feedback on different grammatical units as well as their beliefs about teacher feedback strategies. the study also examined the effect of the students’ level of writing ability on their views about the importance of teacher feedback on different error types. data was gathered throug...

The authors examined the hypothesis that some people are verbal learners and some people are visual learners. They presented a battery of 14 cognitive measures related to the visualizer–verbalizer dimension to 95 college students and then conducted correlational and factor analyses. In a factor analysis, each measure loaded most heavily onto 1 of 4 factors: cognitive style (such as visual–verba...