WWW service has enabled development of e-learning systems that are considered to be direct application of the information and communication technology. xTEx-Sys system is an Web-based authoring shell with adapted environment to each actor of the system. Formal representation of course material in xTEx-Sys involves ontology driven knowledge description. Student’s knowledge evaluation in xTEx-Sys...

This article is a Directed Reading. Your access to Directed Reading quizzes for continuing education credit is determined by your membership status and CE preference. The aorta is the largest artery in the human body. Originating from the left ventricle, it extends into the chest and down into the abdomen. The vessel is the main conduit for distributing oxygenated blood from the heart to the bo...

Background: Practice quizzes have been associated with student learning, comprehension, and retention. This study aims to assess the impact of practice quiz utilisation for an infectious disease (ID) pharmacotherapy course. Methods: Student performance data assessments were collected. A survey was administered regarding perception information quizzes. Results: Most students (95%) completed at l...

This paper outlines a novel location-based visitor assistant system in museums. It introduces visitor movement as a user-friendly and natural mechanism for enabling visitors. It enables visitors to explicitly or implicitly select annotation content about the exhibits and answer quizzes about their knowledge by their moving to specified spots in a museum. We operated the system at a science muse...

This paper is focused on user modeling and adaptation in distributed ELearning systems. We describe here CUMULATE, a generic student modeling server developed for a distributed E-Learning architecture, KnowledgeTree. We also introduce a specific, topic-based knowledge modeling approach which has been implemented as an inference agent in CUMULATE and used in QuizGuide, an adaptive system that he...

Google Docs is a well-known suite of online collaborative tools for document processing, spreadsheets, online presentations, drawing and even quizzes. Google Docs has the potential to become a powerful tool within and LMS course, primarily due to its collaborative qualities. This paper presents an integration that using the IMS BLTI standard turns Google Docs into an engine that powers collabor...