Towards an Educational Possibility of Home Environment

Elearn: Towards a Collaborative Educational Virtual Environment

The evolving growth in networking and telecommunication technologies leads to their enhanced usage in many and different aspects of human activity. One of the technologies that shows great interest is Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs), which may be used in various applications, such as tele-education. This paper presents, analyzes and evaluates the basic elements of Elearn, a Collaborat...

efl home literacy practices of iranian middle school students: an ethnography

موضوع آموزش زبان انگلیسی و کسب مهارت در آن همواره مورد توجه کارشناسان، خانواده ها و معلمان قرار داشته است. امروزه این مهم، با گسترش نیازها و تنوع کاربرد های آن، بیش از هر زمان دیگری به مطالعه و تحلیل نیاز دارد. بر اساس یک رویکرد فرهنگی- اجتماعی به آموزش و سواد، این مطالعه کیفی در پی آن است تا با شیوه قوم نگاری((ethnography، توصیف و تحلیلی از مجموعه فعالیت های آموزشی در خانه( (home literacy ...

AT-HOME 2.0 - An Educational Framework for Home-based Healthcare

This paper intends to describe some of the primary social and cultural dynamics in South African home-based healthcare, using ethnographic case study material and design methodology. This constitutes a detailed narrative of the “care experience” in a poor community, emphasising the needs of and barriers to educational information, particularly concerning caregivers. In reaction to this context,...

Collaborative E-Learning: Towards Designing an Innovative Architecture for an Educational Virtual Environment

Towards an Affective Aware Home

The nowadays smart homes run predefined rules, but the user’s desired behaviour for a smart home varies, as his/her needs change over time. To edit the initial rules is a difficult task for a usual user. We propose a control mechanism that allows the system to learn the new behaviour preferences without editing the rules, but responding emotionally to the system’s decisions. In order to capture...