Network Based Delivery and Automated Management of Virtual University Courses

Vincent Wade; Conor Power

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1998 (1998) pp. 82–88

Factors such as increasing class sizes, expanding curriculum, added time pressure on students and lecturing staff, contention for library resources and study space as well as the cost of educational administration have prompted the application of...

Topics: Educational Technology, Distance Education, Evaluation, Learning Management Systems, Networking Technologies

An automated Evaluation Service for Educational Courseware

Vincent Wade; Mary Lyng

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 569–574

The World Wide Web (WWW) has been heralded as a significant opportunity to deliver successful tele-educational courseware and learning experiences. Because of its ease of use, the WWW has caught the imagination of many groups of people including...

Topics: Evaluation

A Meta-data Driven Approach toSearching for Educational Resources in a Global Context

Paul Doherty; Vincent Wade

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 136–145

As more and more educational services (e.g. on-line courses) and learning resources become available on the Internet today, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify those services or resources, which are of genuine relevance to the learner....

Topics: Internet

Experience Improving WWW based Courseware through Usability Studies

Vincent P. Wade; Mary Lyng

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 951–956

The World Wide Web (WWW) has been heralded as a significant opportunity to deliver successful tele-educational courseware and learning experiences. The central tenant of the WWW being that everyone (educationalists) can become a publisher of...

Topics: Human Computer Interaction, Educational Technology

Towards the Dynamic Personalized Selection and Creation of Learning Objects

Aoife Brady; Owen Conlan; Vincent Wade

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 1903–1909

Delivering the most appropriate learning object for a learner's goals, needs and preferences presents an interesting research challenge. [Dagger et al., 03] presents a solution based on the production of and selection between multiple candidate...

Towards Designing Games for Educational Experiences: An Ontological Approach

Paula Roberts; Vincent Wade; Alan Mullally

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1596–1601

The technique of deploying games in an educational context is receiving increasing recognition as an effective constructivist learning vehicle. Research into the pedagogic merits of game playing supports this endeavor. Of interest to this work is...

Topics: Games

Personalisation for All: Making Adaptive Course Composition Easy

Declan Dagger; Vincent Wade; Owen Conlan

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 8, No. 3 (2005) pp. 9–25

The goal of personalised eLearning is to support e-learning content, activities and collaboration, adapted to the specific needs and influenced by specific preferences of the learner and built on sound pedagogic strategies. One of the major...

An eLearning framework for individual and organisational transformation: SME and large enterprise implications

Liam Brown; Vincent Wade; Eamonn Murphy

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 23–27

The evolution of eLearning, over the last number of decades has led to the emergence of powerful tools, capable of supporting the delivery of education in the workplace. A number of underpinning frameworks have been proposed for technology enhanced ...

Fundamental Requirements of Personalised eLearning Development Environments

Declan Dagger; Owen Conlan; Vincent Wade

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2746–2754

Although personalised eLearning can offer many tangible benefits to the entire educational process such as teacher and learner empowerment [Conlan et. al. 2004] [Bajraktarevic et. al. (2003)], educational community collaboration and tailored...

A Framework for Developing Adaptive Personalized eLearning

Declan Dagger; Vincent Wade; Owen Conlan

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 2579–2587

Adaptive personalized eLearning experience development is an expensive and time consuming process. Typical adaptive course creation requires input from subject matter experts, pedagogical experts and technical experts. This paper describes a...

Topics: Instructional Design, eLearning

An Architecture for Candidacy in Adaptive eLearning Systems to Facilitate the Reuse of Learning Resources

Declan Dagger; Owen Conlan; Vincent Wade

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 49–56

Because of the significant time, money and effort devoted to creating online learning resources, one of the key challenges of producing this learning experience is to reduce the costs involved with authoring, re-authoring and re-purposing learning...

Topics: Learning Objects

Dynamic Contextual eLearning - Dynamic Content Discovery, Capture and Learning Object Generation from Open Corpus Sources

Shay Lawless; Vincent Wade; Owen Conlan

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2158–2165

Adaptive Web Systems are seen as one of the main ways in which tailored learning experiences may be provided to individuals. However, such systems are restricted by the fact that they are reliant on content that has been specifically developed for...

Towards Requirements for the Dynamic Sourcing of Open Corpus Learning Content

Shay Lawless; Declan Dagger; Vincent Wade

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 2878–2884

The dynamic sourcing of Open Corpus Learning Content is a complex and resource intensive process. However, modern technologies and methods can facilitate an efficient content identification and acquisition process. Several bodies of research have...

Topics: Multimedia, Learning Management Systems, Physical Environments, Learning Objects, eLearning

Towards a Standards-based Approach to e-Learning Personalization using Reusable Learning Objects

Declan Dagger; Vincent Wade; Owen Conlan

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 210–217

e-Learning systems that produce personalized course offerings for the learner are often expensive, both from a time and financial perspective, to develop and maintain. Learning content personalized to a learners' cognitive preferences has been shown ...

Topics: Cognition

Dynamic Composition and Personalization of PDA-based eLearning – Personalized mLearning

Aoife Brady; Owen Conlan; Vincent Wade

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 234–242

With the increasingly demanding schedules of formal and casual learners and the proliferation of terminal devices available for content delivery, learners are demanding ubiquitous access to their learning. The multi-modal nature of the variety of...

Topics: eLearning

An Investigation of Tradeoffs between Techniques to Support User-centred Evaluations of Adaptive Game-based Learning Systems

Catherine Mulwa; Donal Fitzpatrick; Vincent Wade

Global Learn 2016 (Apr 28, 2016) pp. 252–261

This paper presents the results of an investigation of existing tradeoffs between evaluation techniques (methods, criteria and metrics) to support user-centred evaluations of adaptive game-based learning systems developed from 2000 to date. Adaptive ...

Topics: Game-based learning

A Review of Personalised E-Learning: Towards Supporting Learner Diversity

Eileen O'Donnell; Séamus Lawless; Mary Sharp; Vincent Wade

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 13, No. 1 (2015) pp. 22–47

The realisation of personalised e-learning to suit an individual learner's diverse learning needs is a concept which has been explored for decades, at great expense, but is still not achievable by non-technical authors. This research reviews the...

OSSES: An Online System for Studies on Evaluation of Systems

Catherine W Mulwa; Mary Sharp; Vincent Wade; Seamus Lawless

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3210–3219

Abstract: Web crawlers are a significant component in Web search engines. This paper describes a distributed, Web-based system consisting of 3 layers: presentation, business logic and data persistence. The educational benefit of this system is in...

An Architecture for integrating Adaptive Hypermedia Services with Open Learning Environments

Owen Conlan; Cord Hockemeyer; Vincent Wade; Dietrich Albert; Mark Gargan

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 344–350

Adaptive Hypermedia Systems are capable of delivering personalized learning content to learners across the WWW. Learning Environments provide interfaces and support services to aid tutors in course construction and aid learners in navigating those...

Topics: Multimedia

Corporate eLearning: A comparative analysis between large and small companies in Ireland

Liam Brown; Eamonn Murphy; Agnes O'Donovan; Vincent Wade

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 1914–1920

This paper compares and contrasts the current attitudes, the awareness of and the take-up of eLearning in Irish High-Technology large and small organisations. Those responsible for training in the Irish sites of a number of high technology...

Just-in-time Generation of Pedagogically Sound, Context Sensitive Personalized Learning Experiences

Ian O' Keeffe; Aoife Brady; Owen Conlan; Vincent Wade

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 5, No. 1 (2006) pp. 113–127

The just-in-time generation of personalized learning experiences requires the assembly of atomic learning assets into coherent learning activities for a learner, based on his/her preferences and requirements. Through the appropriate application of...

Topics: eLearning, Learning Objects, Schools, Competencies, Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Outcomes, Teaching Methods, Students, Learning Management Systems, Classrooms, Inclusive Education, Instructional Design, Cognition, Teachers, Educational Technology, Curriculum