Advances in Web Based Learning - Icwl 2007 : 6th International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, August 15-17, 2007, Revised Papers

by Leung, Howard; Li, Frederick; Lau, Rynson W. H.; Li, Qing

• ISBN13: 9783540781387
• ISBN10: 3540781382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book contributes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2007, held in Edinburgh, UK, in August 2007.The 55 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from about 180 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on personalized e-learning, learning resource organization and management, framework and standards for e-learning, test authoring, question generation and assessment, language learning, science education, visualization technologies for content delivery and learning behavior, practice and experience sharing, security, privacy and mobile e-learning, as well as blended learning.

Table of Contents

Learning How to Dance Using a Web 3D Platform	p. 1
Starting Directions for Personalized E-Learning	p. 13
PLANT: A Distributed Architecture for Personalized E-Learning	p. 20
PeRES: A Personalized Recommendation Education System Based on Multi-agents & SCORM	p. 31
Personalising Learning through Prerequisite Structures Derived from Concept Maps	p. 43
A Pedagogy-Driven Personalization Framework to Support Automatic Construction of Adaptive Learning Experiences	p. 55
Authoring Learning Objects for Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems	p. 66
The ELEKTRA Ontology Model: A Learner-Centered Approach to Resource Description	p. 78
Towards Fuzzy Domain Ontology Based Concept Map Generation for E-Learning	p. 90
Knowledge Element Extraction for Knowledge-Based Learning Resources Organization	p. 102
A Context-Based Framework and Method for Learning Object Description and Search	p. 114
Knowledge Point Based Curriculum Developing and Learning Object Reusing	p. 126
An Informatic Model for Open Contents Management	p. 138
On Line Course Organization	p. 148
Learning as a Service: A Web-Based Learning Framework for Communities of Professionals on the Web 2.0	p. 160
Addressing Context-Awareness and Standards Interoperability in E-Learning: A Service-Oriented Framework Based on IRS III	p. 174
Extending CORDRA for Systematic Reuse	p. 184
Adaptivity in a SCORM Compliant Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System	p. 196
Synergistic Learning for Knowledge Age: Theoretical Model, Enabling Technology and Analytical Framework	p. 207
A New Layering Architecture of E-Learning System	p. 218
Transformational Techniques for Model-Driven Authoring of Learning Designs	p. 230
Automatic Question Generation for Learning Evaluation in Medicine	p. 242
A Cloze Test Authoring System and Its Automation	p. 252
A Web-Based E-Testing System Supporting Test Quality Improvement	p. 264
A Novel Architecture for E-Learning Knowledge Assessment Systems	p. 276
An Assessment Tool for Judging the Overall Appearance of Chinese Handwriting Based on Opinions from Occupational Therapists	p. 288
WILLIE - A Web Interface for a Language Learning and Instruction Environment	p. 300
E-Learning and Deaf Children: A Logic-Based Web Tool	p. 312
A Virtual Chinese Hairy Brush Model for E-Learning	p. 320
Exploratory Learning for Computer Networking	p. 331
Application of an Online Judge & Contester System in Academic Tuition	p. 343
Assessing the Learners' Motivation in the E-Learning Environments for Programming Education	p. 355
Using Constraint-Based Modelling to Describe the Solution Space of Ill-defined Problems in Logic Programming	p. 367
A Web Application for Mathematics Education	p. 380
An Improved Platform for Medical E-Learning	p. 392
A 3D Geometry Search Engine in Support of Learning	p. 404
A Piece-Wise Learning Approach to 3D Facial Animation	p. 416
Open Smart Classroom: Extensible and Scalable Smart Space Using Web Service Technology	p. 428
An Instructor's Guide to Design Web-Based Algorithm Animations	p. 440
Logging and Visualization of Learner Behaviour in Web-Based E-Testing	p. 452
Tracking and Visualisation of Student Use of Online Learning Materials in a Large Undergraduate Course	p. 464
Web-Based Outcome-Based Teaching and Learning - An Experience Report	p. 475
Evaluating Asynchronous Message Boards to Support Cross-Cultural Communities of High-School Students	p. 484
From Learning Objects to Educational Itineraries: Helping Teachers to Exploit Repositories	p. 496
Adult Distance Learning Using a Web-Based Learning Management System: Methodology and Results	p. 508
Language-Driven Development of Web-Based Learning Applications	p. 520
System Control Through the Internet and a Remote Access Laboratory Implementation	p. 532
Secure and Efficient Information Sharing in Multi-university E-Learning Environments	p. 542
Protecting Disseminative Information in E-Learning	p. 554
Mobile Learning Support with Statistical Inference-Based Cache Management	p. 566
Design and Implementation of an Automated System for Assessment of Computer Programming Assignments	p. 584
Web-Based Logging of Classroom Teaching Activities for Blended Learning	p. 597
Blended Teaching and Learning of Computer Programming	p. 606
Discovery of Educational Objective on E-Learning Resource: A Competency Approach	p. 618
Structured Blended Learning Implementation for an Open Learning Environment	p. 630
The Marriage of Rousseau and Blended Learning: An Investigation of 3 Higher Educational Institutions' Praxis	p. 641
Author Index	p. 653
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