This contribution presents the results of the “Speech technology integrated learning modules for Intercultural Dialogue” project. The project objective was to increase the availability and quality of e-learning opportunities for less widely-used and less taught European languages using a user-friendly and highly accessible learning environment. The integration of new Text-to-Speech developments...

Lab time dedicated to programming practice in most schools is typically not sufficient for students to succeed as professional programmers. In this paper, we introduce an interactive tool for teaching computer programming. The tool can be used outside the classroom as it is web-based, can be easily integrated with any management learning environment such as BlackBoard, and provides better oppor...

Today, we see a strong demand for real-time information, with a rapid growth of m-learning. We also see that there are many educational resources on the Internet. Learning objects (LOs) are designed as a means of reusing these resources. Most of these LOs are built for e-learning systems based on desktop computers, which prevents their use on mobile devices. A LO is an area that is open to rese...

Effective assessment is vital in educational activities. We propose IWAS (intelligent Web-based assessment system), an intelligent, generalized and real-time system to assess both learning and teaching. IWAS provides a foundation for more efficiency in instructional activities and, ultimately, students’ performances. Our contributions are summarized as: (1) Given the causes (student knowledge l...

Social networks have risen to prominence over the last years as the predominant form of electronic interaction between individuals. In an attempt to harness the power of the large user base which they have managed to attract, this study proposes an e-learning prototype which integrates concepts of the social and semantic web. A selected set of services are deployed which have been scientificall...

This paper proposes an initial design study to examine and test some of the key concepts and issues within a large-scale European research project that is exploring and aiming to realise learning as a process of knowledge maturing in the workplace. It will outline some of these concepts, based on a contemporary (or Web 2.0 driven) articulation of how ontologies can be acquired, externalised and...

This paper proposes an architecture based on Web services to support the enactment of ‘units of learning’ (e.g. a course, a lesson, a lab practice) modeled in accordance with an Educational Modeling Language (EML). These languages enable the modeling of instructional practices following a process-based approach, similar to a workflow language. Therefore, the units of learning involve the entiti...

We present OpenML, a novel open science platform that provides easy access to machine learning data, software and results to encourage further study and application. It organizes all submitted results online so they can be easily found and reused, and features a web API which is being integrated in popular machine learning tools such asWeka, KNIME, RapidMiner and R packages, so that experiments...

While the existing DSS enables self-motivated learners to engage in situated, exploratory and independent learning, the addition of teaching strategies and a student model would allow: 1) Scaffolded and individualized exploitation of the overview for case-based teaching. 2) Learner motivation through selective presentation of challenging cases. 3) Active guidance on the use of integrated web-ba...