Providing Adaptive Courses in Learning Management Systems with Respect to Learning Styles

Sabine Graf; K. Kinshuk

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 2576–2583

Learning management systems (LMS) are commonly used in e-learning but provide little, or in most cases, no adaptivity. However, courses which adapt to the individual needs of students make learning easier for them and lead to a positive effect in...

Causal competencies and learning styles: A framework for adaptive instruction

Vive Kumar; Sabine Graf; Kinshuk -

Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society Vol. 7, No. 3 (2011) pp. 13–32

Learning in online environments has the potential to better classroom instruction in many avenues. In this context, this article presents two novel technologies, first, a method to causally model learner competencies, both conceptual and...

A framework for user modeling in QuizMASter

Sima Shabani; Fuhua Lin; Sabine Graf

Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society Vol. 8, No. 3 (2012) pp. 29–44

This paper presents an approach to user modeling in QuizMASter, a multi-user educational game shows that uses multi-agent systems to create a personalized learning environment. To keep the students motivated during the games, the system creates,...

Exploring the Development of Web-based Peer Assessment System

Shiau-Ping Yeh; Tzu-Chien Liu; Sabine Graf; Yu Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5088–5093

Peer assessment becomes a popular and effective approach to enhance students’ critical thinking skills and make them reflect more about their and others’ work. In recent years, several web-based peer assessment systems were developed in order to...

Topics: Students, Assessment

Searching for and positioning of contextualized learning objects

Silvia Baldiris Navarro; Sabine Graf; Ramon Fabregat; Nestor Duque Méndez

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 13, No. 5 (Nov 08, 2012) pp. 76–101

Learning object economies are marketplaces for the sharing and reuse of learning objects (LO). There are many motivations for stimulating the development of the LO economy. The main reason is the possibility of providing the right content, at the...

Embedding mobile technology to outdoor natural science learning based on the 7E learning cycle

Kuan-Jhen Huang; Tzu-Chien Liu; Sabine Graf; Yi-Chun Lin

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2082–2086

Outdoor learning in areas such as natural science has high potential to enhance learning by giving students a real experience of what they shall learn. However, traditional outdoor learning faces several problems. One of the major problems is that...

Topics: Instructional Design, Science, Students

Role of Learning Styles & Affective States in Web-based Adaptive Learning Environments

Farman Ali Khan; Sabine Graf; Edgar R. Weippl; Tassawar Iqbal; A Min Tjoa

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3896–3905

Detecting students’ learning needs is a challenging task in a Web-based learning environment. In a traditional learning environment teachers can easily observe and consequently recognize a student’s learning needs. In web based learning environments ...