The great amount of educational resources available on educational repositories enriches the learning process. However, it raises a new challenge: the need to provide support to the location of those resources that meet the needs, goals and preferences of each student. The location of useful educational resources to support the learning process is addressed by using recommender systems. Recomme...

There are numerous projects at the University of Memphis Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) that involve a marriage of natural language processing, computational linguistics, psychology, and educational technologies. We use natural language and computational linguistic technologies to accomplish a variety of goals related to psychology and educational practice, including text analysis and ...

In the UK, education on tissue viability is delivered on an ad hoc basis, with a wide range of providers and educational materials. Clinicians and academics need to work together to ensure common goals that will help standardise such provision.

In the education field, in order to achieve learning goals, it is necessary to define learning paths that foresee a gradual and incremental acquisition of certain knowledge and skills that students should acquire. In this paper we analyze the educational progressions of the French educational system, we show how to formalize them through a web ontology and how to perform knowledge extraction fr...

Cost-effectiveness analysis refers to the consideration Of decision alternatives in which both their costs and consequences are taken into account in a systematic way. It is a decisionoriented tool, in that it is designed to ascertain which means of attaining particular educational goals are most efficient. For example, there are many alternative approaches for pursuing such goals as raising re...

Motivation is one of the driving forces behind the recent interest in games with educational goals. People willingly play complex games and we would like to channel that willingness to participate in complex challenges into the educational context. In this paper, we report on a survey administered to computer science and business students, two distinct groups of game players, in order to examin...

In recent years, psychological research has emphasized the role of goals in adolescent development and, particularly, in the development of socially adapted lifestyles. Along those lines, the present study, analyzing data collected from a sample of 488 participants, explores: a) The structure of adolescent goals and their importance for young people, b) The relationship between adolescent goals...

In the present research, the recently proposed 3 × 2 model of achievement goals is tested and associations with achievement emotions and their joint influence on academic achievement are investigated. The study was conducted with 388 students using the 3 × 2 Achievement Goal Questionnaire including the six proposed goal constructs (task-approach, task-avoidance, self-approach, self-avoidance, o...