Accretion-based Ontology Learner (ACOL) is a ontology learner within the SAGO framework. It accumulates evidence that contributes to each relationship between concepts picked up by the ontology learner. This means that, instead of having a fixed relationship between concepts, ACOL retains the evidence about the relationships and calculates, or resolves, the relationship according to a given con...

This paper describes a method for learner modelling for use within simulation-based learning environments. The goal of the learner modelling system is to provide the learner with advice on discovery learning. The system analyzes the evidence that a learner has generated for a specific hypothesis, assesses whether the learner needs support on the discovery process, and the nature of that support...

Learner preferences of students have been analysed within two modules that have been given in the department of media using Röll’s learner preference model. A qualitative analysis of the results of an online learner preference test based on this model has been conducted. This analysis showed that for the majority of the students the revealed results were valid. Starting from current methods use...

the purpose of this paper was to see whether any significant relationship exists among efl learners’autonomy, left/right brain dominance, and reading comprehension of the academic reading and generalreading modules of ielts examination. to this end, 100 female efl learners were randomly selectedfrom those who were attending ielts preparatory courses at a language school in tehran. allparticipan...

Individual differences in learners’ learning styles can have a significant effect on their acceptance of collaboration technologies to facilitate the sharing of learning information in technology-based collaborative learning. There is, however, a lack of understanding of the impact of learning styles on the acceptance of open learner models as a collaboration technology for information sharing....

In the process of English learning, each learner has his/her own attitude towards learning. In this path, s/he should feel free to be responsible for what s/he wants and seeks to learn which shows how autonomous the learner is. This study is based on the hypotheses that there is a relationship between what the learner feels towards English language learning and his/her level of autonomy. For th...

Evidence of the strong relationship between learning and emotion has fueled recent work in modeling affective states in intelligent tutoring systems. Many of these models are based on general models of affect without a specific focus on learner emotions. This paper presents work that investigates the benefits of using theoretical models of learner emotions to guide the development of Bayesian n...

This paper discusses a data-driven learning (DDL) tool, which consists of a learner corpus for L2 learners of German. The learner corpus, in addition to submissions from ongoing current users, has been constructed from millions of submissions from a variety of activity types of approximately 5000 learners who used the E-Tutor CALL system over a period of five years. By following a cyclical proc...