This paper presents an integrated rule-based data mining system that is capable of creating rulebased classifiers with web-based user interface from data sets provided by end users. It provides a streamlined integration of three technologies, namely, database systems, machine learning systems , and rule-based systems. Rules generated by the system are based on rough set theory. Thus, it is capa...

Educational content on the Internet is rapidly increasing. Educational institutions and businesses are placing more course material online to supplement classroom and business training situations. Prior researchers have reported that this new web-based training technology (which has its foundation in computer-based training) has not integrated sound pedagogical practices into the authoring proc...

Collaborative learning has placed an emphasis on co-constructing knowledge by sharing and negotiating meaning for problem-solving activities, and this cannot be accomplished without governing the self-regulatory processes of students. This study employed a Web-based tool, Google Docs, to determine the effects of Webbased collaboration on vocabulary improvements among learners of English as a fo...

This paper develops a new conception of organizational knowledge management as "knowledge ecology." The Socrates electronic learning environment is described as an example of a knowledge ecosystem for education and training. The Socrates program was developed as a knowledge management system, viewing classrooms as organizations for lifelong learning. Socrates allows even novice Web users to qui...

This paper presents a novel approach towards virtual collaborative medical education, which aims to confront the problem of ever expanding core knowledge and the necessity of handling over-specialized disciplines in medical education. Already proven, general purpose web-based learning and collaboration tools are used to create a virtual education network among medical institutions. Over-special...

As educators and teachers pay more attention to the applications of educational technologies and websites to help students achieve satisfactory learning outcomes, it is necessary to develop effective teaching methods integrated with technologies for both teachers and students. This study involved 96 undergraduates from two class sections in an experiment wherein the first class received the int...

This article deals with a special type of ePortfolio, the Learning and Personal Development Planning Portfolio (PDP). It explores the technical challenges deriving from pedagogical requirements of PDP processes and discusses how semantic web technologies can contribute to an integrated “ePortfolio-PDP System”.

In Web classification, web pages are assigned to pre-defined categories mainly according to their content (content mining). However, the structure of the web site might provide extra information about their category (structure mining). Traditionally, both approaches have been applied separately, or are dealt with techniques that do not generate a model, such as Bayesian techniques. Unfortunatel...