The first microcomputers were developed in the late 1970s and soon a wide variety of these machines were available for school and home use. This presented both a marvellous opportunity to improve school education and a significant problem for education authorities in how to provide support for the range of available computers. Several countries, including Australia, attempted to solve this prob...

The paper presents an architecture for enterprise development of eLearning content. The authoring studio is intended to work alone or as an integrated part of learning content management system in conjunction with the presented adaptation engine. The content organisation that facilitate development and repurpose of educational content is offered, by definition of granularity, structure, support...

The setting for this case study is the Dolph Briscoe, Jr. Library, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, a health sciences campus with medical, dental, nursing, health professions, and graduate schools. During 2008-2009, major renovations to the library building were completed including office space for a faculty development department, multipurpose classrooms, a 24/7 study ...

Open Source Software (OSS) has provided a successful model for community-based collaborative development of software. The success of OSS has triggered interests in applying similar approaches to other areas besides software development, such as open courseware development and open content projects. However, there are nearly no projects on building highly collaborative Open Content Community (OC...

1 A.-R. M. Zaghloul, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Engineering, GTREP and School of ECE, Orleans Building, Chatham Center Dr., Savannah, GA 31405 [email protected] 2 Ashraf Saad, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Engineering, GTREP and School of ECE, Orleans Building, Chatham Center Dr., Savannah, GA 31405 [email protected] Abstract  We propose a u...

Increasing demand for global health education in medical training has driven the growth of educational programs predicated on a model of short-term medical service abroad. Almost two-thirds of matriculating medical students expect to participate in a global health experience during medical school, continuing into residency and early careers. Despite positive intent, such short-term experiences ...

BACKGROUND While medical students and residents may be utilizing websites as online learning resources, medical trainees and educators now have the opportunity to create such educational websites and digital tools on their own. However, the process and theory of building educational websites for medical education have not yet been fully explored. OBJECTIVE To understand the opportunities, bar...

Immersive virtual environments offer a natural setting for educational and instructive experiences for users, and game engine technology offers an interesting, cost-effective and efficient solution for building them. In this paper we describe an ongoing project whose goal is to provide a virtual environment where the “real” location of the user is used to position the user’s avatar into the vir...

Building on and extending existing research, this article proposes a 4-phase model of interest development. The model describes 4 phases in the development and deepening of learner interest: triggered situational interest, maintained situational interest, emerging (less-developed) individual interest, and well-developed individual interest. Affective as well as cognitive factors are considered....

This paper deals with the automatic building of personalized hypermedia. We build upon ideas developed for educational hypermedia; the definition of a domain model and the use of overlay user models. Since much work has been done on learning user models and adapting hypermedia based on such models, we tackle the core problem: the automatic definition of a domain model for a static hypermedia.