MOOCs are world-wide online courses with the purpose of open visit and massive participation, which is the newly-booming course model in the global educational field. The article firstly introduces the outline of MOOCs in terms of types, theoretical foundations, features in course models and contents, and then analyzes the impacts of MOOCs on Chinese college English teaching including the quali...

The Web is widely used, in educational settings, typically as a repository of contents to be learned. Within this approach, the Web-searching process tends to be perceived merely as an obstacle on the way to the contents. This paper suggests instead that searching the Web requires information problem solving competences which are in themselves key requisites for literacy in a knowledge society ...

Our aim is to provide a system with adaptive and knowledge management abilities for students and teachers using the IMS specifications to represent information through metadata, granting semantics and meaning to all contents in the system. The tools of our system along with metadata are used to satisfy requirements like reusability, interoperability and multipurpose. The system provides tools t...

In this article we introduce the main components of a generalized architecture to facilitate the integration of tools in LMSs. This proposal tries to improve the reuse possibilities of the tools in e-learning systems. Reusability has been suggested as a key solution to reduce the high costs of the development of educational experiences in e-learning systems. Up to now, reutilization has focused...

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The Web is typically used, in educational settings, as a repository of contents to be learned. Within this approach, the Web-searching process tends to be perceived merely as an obstacle on the way to the contents. This paper suggests instead that searching the Web requires information problem solving competences which are in themselves key requisites for literacy in a knowledge society and des...

The purpose of the study was to clarify views authors on importance control in process preparing students for independent physical exercises; technological transformation means and methods pedagogical into self-control through educational, research other functions empirical observations.
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Introduction Educational strategies and contents developed in the First World are not always adapted to the needs and challenges of developing countries. Cooperation and collaboration between developing countries can be mutually beneficial and create the basis for a longstanding, Third World-centered educational program aimed at increasing the pediatric support for Pediatric Rheumatology (PR).

The processing and analysis of the Mizar library has been performed using the infrastructure of the University of Bialystok High Performance Computing Center. In the current Mizar language, direct linking to statements formulated as compound conditions is prohibited. This particular language feature has often been considered by the users as an unnecessary disruption of the natural course of pro...