Modelling a Layer for Real-Time Management of Interactions in Web Based Distance Learning

In the last few years, the University of Aveiro, Portugal, has been offering several distance learning courses over the Web, using e-learning platforms. Experience showed that different editions of the same course, using the same contents and structure, and having similar target learners, had different success rates. What would be the reason for that? A hypothesis was considered: The level of success could be directly related with the remote follow-up of the learners’ participation in the courses; the best results usually occur when the follow-up is closer. The existing e-learning platforms offer and the standardization works being developed by organizations and consortiums like IMS (IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc), ADL SCORM (Advanced Distributed Learning Sharable Content Object Reference Model), IEEE LTSC LOM (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Learning Technologies Standard Committee Learning Object Metadata), ARIADNE (ARIADNE Foundation for the European Knowle...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ELPUB
• Authors: Carlos Sousa Pinto, Fernando M. S. Ramos
• Keywords: E-learning Platforms, ELPUB 2006, IMS Global, IMS LD, Information Management