ED-MEDIA 2005--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
Jun 27, 2005
Editors
Piet Kommers; Griff Richards
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 815
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Web-based register cards -- a tool supporting mathematics students in distance education
Luise Unger, Silke Hartlieb & Thorsten Voigt, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
We discuss a project aimed to mainly fully employed part time students of mathematics in distance education at the University of Hagen. These students need special assistance in their difficult... More
pp. 1477-1482
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Educational Support with Tele-dental-medicine System
Tomiaki Morikawa & Hiroki Moriguchi, Department of medical informatics The University of Tokushima Hospital, Japan
The advent of the Internet enables educational connection in multidirectional ways and is in the process of realizing new interactive educational environment. As an approach to the huge volume of... More
pp. 1483-1486
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Developing an Adapted Virtual Class based on Electronic Portfolio and Intelligent Tutoring System Approaches
Debora Nascimento, UFS (Federal University of Sergipe), Brazil; Arturo Hernandez-Dominguez, UFAL (Federal University of Alagoas), Brazil
This paper describes a virtual class, which is based on the principles of ITS (Intelligent Tutoring Systems) and Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio). The virtual class allows to a group of learners ... More
pp. 1487-1494
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Toward Design Patterns for Usage Analysis and Observation in Re-Engineering Process of Learning Systems
Randriamalaka Noa & Iksal Sébastien, University of Maine – LIUM – CNRS FRE 2730, France
Many designers are expected to design tools and/or methods of analysis and observation. That task can be difficult for designers who lack experience in instructional design and design method. In... More
pp. 1495-1500
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Building Meaning: Experts and Novices in On-line Learning
Julia Shaw, Nicola Martinez & Fabio Chacon, SUNY Empire State College, United States
Teachers in a domain teach to the level of their ability: novices can teach students to be novices: experts can teach student to be experts. This paper explores aspects of on-line learning that... More
pp. 1501-1505
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Problems with e-learning we can’t ignore: One size does not fit all
Glenn Smith, Stony Brook University, United States
The prevailing pedagogical model of e-learning glosses over differences between disciplines and promotes a one size fits all pedagogy. Case studies, qualitative interviews and action research on... More
pp. 1506-1511
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An Online Marketing Guide for Educational Institutions
Hendrik Speck, FH Kaiserslautern, Germany
The paper presents an empirical survey of the technologies, skills and resources required to create a successful viral marketing and institutional strategy for educational institutions within a... More
pp. 1512-1513
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Progress-Based E-Learning Pedagogy Design, Analysis, and Implementation
Dan Tian, California State University at Monterey Bay, United States
This paper presents progress-based E-Learning pedagogy design and analysis through the implementation of a vocabulary e-learning Web site using the Learning Advancement Management System (LAMS).... More
pp. 1514-1519
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User Behavior Observations for Supporting Offline Delivering of Learning Materials in a Mobile System
Anna Trifonova & Marco Ronchetti, University of Trento, Italy
In the context of e-learning and especially in adaptive learning systems an integral part of any system is the user analysis and behavior observation. We look at this important part from another... More
pp. 1520-1527
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iPlayer: Development of an Interactive Streaming Player for E-Learning
Yuhei Yamauchi, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Shunsuke Sakai & Kazaru Yaegashi, Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, Japan; Shinichi Hisamatsu, Keio University, Japan; Toshio Mochizuki, Kobe University, Japan; Satoshi Kitamura, Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, Japan
The object of this study was the development of the iPlayer, an interactive streaming video player for use in e-learning. This system aims to create interactive instructor–student and student... More
pp. 1528-1530
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Design Instrumental Web Services for Online Experiment Systems
Yuhong Yan, NRC-IIT, Canada; Xinge Du, Faculty of CS, University of New Brunswick, Canada; Hamadou Saliah-Hassane, T¨¦l¨¦-universit¨¦, Canada; Yong Liang & Ali Ghorbani, Faculty of CS, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Web services add a language-independent layer for distributed applications. It is well motivated to use Web Services for e-science and e-learning applications, where resources-sharing is a demand. ... More
pp. 1531-1538
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Learning Objects: Just Say No!
Alan Amory, Centre for IT in Higher Education (ITEd), South Africa
In the late 1990's Noble in a series of papers, argues that the commodification of intellectual activity into intellectual capital resulted in the commodification of learning information. The... More
pp. 1539-1544
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An Integrated Language Learning Environment: towards an optimal blend of c- and e-learning
Piet Desmet, K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Belgium
Although Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has become a major area of research in recent years and although the usefulness of ICT in foreign language learning is generally acknowledged,... More
pp. 1545-1550
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Grounded Design for a Learning Environment for Graduate Student Researchers
Wendy Freeman, OISE/UT, Canada; Clare Brett, OISE/University of Toronto, Canada
Using grounded design this paper describes an online learning environment for graduate students in education called GRAIL (Graduate Researchers Academic Identity onLine). The overall goal of this... More
pp. 1551-1556
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Implementation of a Virtual Computing Environment created with User Mode Linux
Guy Heatley, Phil Holifield & Jim Ingham, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
This paper describes User-mode Linux (UML) and discusses the theory and implementation of the creation a networked "laboratory suite" of UML instances on a single host, allowing them to communicate... More
pp. 1557-1562
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Affordances of Playful Environment: A View of Finnish Girls and Boys
Pirkko Hyvönen & Marjaana Juujärvi, University of Lapland, Finland
This paper is a report of research that focuses on children's representations of their ideal playful environments. Methodologically, the study draws on grounded theory, with data collected through ... More
pp. 1563-1572
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Helping Students with Cognitive Disabilities Live more Independent Lives through Distributed Support Communities:A Collaborative Project Between University of Colorado, Center for LifeLong Learning and The Boulder Valley School District
Anja Kintsch, University of Colorado, United States; Jean Riordan, Boulder Valley School District, United States
While students with cognitive disabilities have many of the same dreams of future employment and independent living as their typical peers, delays in memory, attention, and executive functioning... More
pp. 1573-1578
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Developing new mobile services for the Universities -University students’ conceptions of their needs for mobile tools for scaffolding learning activities
Kari Liukkunen, Piia Tolonen & Jari Laru, University of Oulu, Finland
The benefit of computers in collaborative learning has been broadly researched, but it is still unknown what kind of possibilities the pedagogical use of mobile tools and wireless devices can bring... More
pp. 1579-1586
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Evaluation of Home Delivery of Lectures Utilizing 3D Virtual Space Infrastructure
Ryo Nishide, Ryoichi Shima, Hiromu Araie & Shinichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan
Evaluation experiments are essential in exploring home delivery of lectures for which users can experience campus lifestyle and distant learning through 3D virtual space. In this paper, the authors... More
pp. 1587-1594
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Stories, Models, and Examples from the Upcoming Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs, Part 1
Ron Oliver, Edith Cowan University, Australia; Abtar Kaur, Open University of Malaysia, Malaysia; John Hedberg, Macquarie University, Australia; Okhwa Lee, Chungbuk National University, Korea (South); Charles Graham, Brigham Young University, United States; Thomas Reynolds, National University, United States; Ron Owston, York University, Canada; Curtis J. Bonk, Indiana University and SurveyShare, Inc., United States
This symposium session will highlight reasons for the recent emergence of blended as documented in the upcoming "Handbook of Blended Learning (HOBLe): Global Perspectives, Local Designs." The... More
pp. 1595-1600
