Dear Editor in chief Each year, Iranian university authorities, as a good tradition on Teacher’s Day, choose and introduce their top educators to their academic community. Undoubtedly, this effort is a good action, generally leading to effective promotion of the educational system. However, the criteria for these selections are always a matter of big debate. In overview, an academic excellent...

Several reasons underlie the low retention rates in MOOCs. These can be analysed from different perspectives, either terms of course design or enrolled students. On student side, we find little social interaction, boredom, tiredness, and a lack motivation time. challenges addressed by adaptive gamification that proposes personalised, hedonic learning experiences. Studies to date have adopted on...

This poster will describe the Learner Interaction Monitoring System (LiMS), designed to capture data demonstrating learner online engagement with course materials. The poster presentation will explain how the LiMS ‘event capture model’ collects detailed real-time data on learner behavior in selfdirected online learning environments, and interprets these data by drawing on behavioral research. W...

This paper considers research on open learner models, which are usually aimed at adult learners, and describes how this has been applied to an intelligent tutoring system for 8-9 year-old children and their teachers. We introduce Subtraction Master, a learning environment with an open learner model for two and three digit subtraction, with and without adjustment (borrowing). It was found that s...

The learner model is a key component of any adaptive E-Learning system, including educational games, as it stores the information about the learner, which can then be used to provide personalized experience. Recently, there has been growing interest in creating learner models using educational games. This is due to the limitations of traditional E-Learning systems, since the learner interaction...

Engagement is an important aspect of effective learning. Time spent using an e-Learning system is not quality time if the learner is not engaged. Tracking student disengagement would offer the possibility to intervene in order to motivate the learner at appropriate time. In previous research we demonstrated the possibility of predicting engagement from log files using a web-based e-Learning sys...