Innovative Educational Technologies, Tools and Methods for E-learning

Use of innovative technologies on an e-learning course

This paper examines how four innovative Internet technologies were incorporated into one course at The UK Open University. The technologies were: blogging, audio conferencing, instant messaging and Harvard’s Rotisserie system. Each of the technologies is addressed, and details from the student evaluation are provided. The student feedback on all the technologies was positive. The role of the le...

Methods and Tools for Increasing the Effectiveness of E-Learning

Workshop on Tools and Technologies in Statistics, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval for Educational Data Mining

In these days WEKA has become one of the most important data mining and machine learning tools. Despite the fact that it incorporates many algorithms, on the classification area there are still some unimplemented features. In this paper we cover some of the missing features that may be useful to researchers and developers when working with decision tree classifiers. The rest of the paper presen...

Innovation in Learning: Innovative Tools and Techniques for Learning

Innovation is a key for the growth, productivity, competitiveness, survival, and profitability in the today’s competitive world. This paper examines the relevant aspects of literature on invention and innovation concepts, including characteristics of innovation, types of innovation, diffusion of innovation, innovation process, types of innovators, importance of innovation, tools and techniques ...

Model-Based Methods for Assessment, Learning, and Instruction: Innovative Educational Technology at Florida State University

In this chapter, we describe our research and development efforts relating to eliciting, representing, and analyzing how individuals and small groups conceptualize complex problems. The methods described herein have all been developed and are in various states of being validated. In addition, the methods we describe have been automated and most have been integrated in an online modelbased set o...