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ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Marriage of Rousseau and Blended Learning: An Investigation of 3 Higher Educational Institutions' Praxis
This paper sets out the central problem of current blended learning research that it does not have an appropriate focus on educational theory. The blended learning praxis in higher...
Esyin Chew, Norah Jones, David Turner
ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Piece-Wise Learning Approach to 3D Facial Animation
Web-based 3D facial animation is an alternative of face to face communication. Animating 3D human faces is also a difficult task because of the substantive non-rigid facial motions...
Yushun Wang, Yueting Zhuang, Jun Xiao, Fei Wu
ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Web-Based Logging of Classroom Teaching Activities for Blended Learning
Nowadays, eLearning has been adapted in all educational institutes, starting from kindergartens, primary schools, high schools, to the universities. Teachers are encouraged to use ...
Joseph Fong
ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Cloze Test Authoring System and Its Automation
Abstract. This paper presents a pilot system and discusses its possible extensions. In the first sections, we present a web-based test authoring system for English grammar and voca...
Ayako Hoshino, Hiroshi Nakagawa
ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The ELEKTRA Ontology Model: A Learner-Centered Approach to Resource Description
Abstract. There is little doubt that intelligent and adaptive educational technologies are capable of providing personalized learning experiences and improving learning success. Cu...
Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust, Dietrich Albert
ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Discovery of Educational Objective on E-Learning Resource: A Competency Approach
It is indeed important to implement e-Learning platforms for education and training purposes in a variety of domains. However, facing the enormous amount of learning resources, gui...
Shi-Ming Huang, Hsiang-Yuan Hsueh, Jing-Shiuan Hua
ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Structured Blended Learning Implementation for an Open Learning Environment
Abstract. This paper proposes a structured blended learning for providing elearning strategies adopted by the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). The paper identified the factors ...
Jason K. Y. Chan, Ken C. K. Law
ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Learning How to Dance Using a Web 3D Platform
In this paper we present the European project Open Dance and in particular our contribution to the 3D simulation of folk dances and their presentation on the web. Our aim is to pro...
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Dimitrios Protopsaltou, E...
ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Web-Based E-Testing System Supporting Test Quality Improvement
In e-testing it is important to administer tests composed of good quality question items. By the term “quality” we intend the potential of an item in effectively discriminating...
Gennaro Costagliola, Filomena Ferrucci, Vittorio F...
ICWL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Language-Driven Development of Web-Based Learning Applications
In this paper we propose a language-driven approach for the high-level design of web-based learning applications. In our approach we define a domainspecific language that character...
José Luis Sierra, Baltasar Fernández...