With the growth of adaptive educational systems available to students, semantic integration of user modeling information from these systems is emerging into an important practical task. Ontologies can serve as the major representational framework for such integration. In this paper, we report an experiment on integration of domain models of two different adaptive systems. The differences in dom...

Looking forward to promote the exchange and integration of information in order to build a unique reference model for the universities it is essencial to assure commom concepts of higher education institutions in Brazil. This paper proposes an University Support Management Ontology, named ontoAGA, to help the operation of legacy data in Semantic Web in a standardized manner and to allow the int...

This document is intended as an indication of the order of magnitude of commencing a realistic computer-based educational research program in Britain.

With the growth of adaptive educational systems available to students, integration of these systems is evolving from an interesting research problem into an important practical task. One of the challenges that needs to be addressed is the development of mechanisms for student model integration. The architectural principles and representation technologies employed by adaptive educational systems...

This work aims at handling the affectivity in a learning interaction between student and tutor in MACES educational system: a collaborative environment with a multi-agent architecture based on Vygotsky’s Socio-cultural Pedagogical Approach. The student’s emotions are handled by the Mediating Agent of the system which has the goal of motivating and engaging the student to learn as well as promot...

Test-based accountability is now the cornerstone of U.S. education policy, and it is becoming more important in many other nations as well. Educators sometimes respond to test-based accountability in ways that produce score inflation. In the past, score inflation has usually been evaluated by comparing trends in scores on a high-stakes test to trends on a lower-stakes audit test. However, separ...

A major technological concern of our work is to improve the cost effectiveness, reusability, and interoperability of advanced educational software. To make these technologies viable, we must be able to add component functionality incrementally, and enable systems to interoperate with commercial software and internet resources. We have designing and implemented an architecture that places shared...

In this paper we focus on adaptive instruction and especially on the educational perspective that should underlie the development of web-based Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH) systems used for Internet-based distance education. A design rational and guidelines are proposed for adaptive instruction in the context of AEH systems, which unify several processes that formulate system’s adaptati...

Currently, when aiming at providing learners with opportunities for technology enhanced learning, companies, universities, and other educational institution mainly use so-called learning management systems (LMS). LMSs are Web-based educational systems that aim at supporting teachers and administrators in creating, administering, and managing online courses. These systems provide a great variety...

We study the evolution of an educational system founded on a hierarchical di®erentiation between vocational and general education, with vocational playing an inferior role in the society. The dynamics are best summarized by the ratio of the fraction of the population in vocational to that in general education, which we interpret as a measure of the degree of strati ̄cation of the society. We sho...