The analysis of video recorded surgical procedures is considered to be a useful extension of the medical curriculum. We can foster the development of video-based e-learning courses by working out a unified description method which would facilitate the exchange of these materials between different platforms. Sophisticated metadata enables a broader integration of artificial intelligence techniqu...

Software agents of educational automation procedures consist of pieces of software that deal with human characteristics, so as to facilitate efficiency and increased effectiveness in social learning. When software agents are integrated with learning processes (in adaptive e-learning environments) then they are known as interface agents. When learning processes are integrated with learner requir...

Background: Rapid advancement of information and communication technologies has transformed the methods of education. It has created methods which help students achieve deep and effective learning as well as develop a desirable level of creativity. Implementation of e-learning in education is one of such methods. The purpose of the present research is to study the impact of self-learning (self-...

This paper presents three approaches to generate learning designs using existing domain-independent planners. All of the approaches compile a course defined in a standard e-learning language into a planning domain, and a file containing student’s learning information into a planning problem. The learning designs are automatically generated from the plans that solve the problems. The approaches ...

Endoscopic surgery has proven to be beneficial to the patient with regard to reduction of hospital stay, postoperative pain and earlier return to daily activities. After its introduction, development of new instrumentation improved and facilitated endoscopic performance (Yohannes et al, 2002). Despite this development, laparoscopic procedures have been limited by fixed distances, restricted fre...

Today’s skilled IT professionals bring to bear an enormous amount of knowledge about how systems are configured, how they function on a day-to-day basis, and how to repair them when they break. However, there are not enough skilled IT professionals to meet the ever-growing demand. Autonomic computing offers a way out of this dilemma: offload the responsibility of managing complex systems onto t...

Spam is not only clogging the Internet traffic by consuming a hefty amount of network bandwidth but it is also a source for e-mail born viruses, spyware, adware and Trojan Horses. It is also used to carry out denial of service, directory harvesting and phishing attacks that directly cause financial losses. Further, the contents of spam are often offensive and contain adult oriented and fraudule...

With the growing demand for e-learning all over the world, constant evaluation ofits curriculumis incumbent upon institutions which aimto be competitive in thismarket.  To this end, the present study employs SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, opportunities, Threats) analysis as the tool for the identification and prioritization of the gaps of the current e-TEFL(Electronic Teaching English as a Foreig...