This article reports a pilot study on the uses of technology to enable learning within a formal educational setting in a higher education institution and within a corporation. These two Norwegian cases were selected due to their commitment to technology-enabled learning, as expressed in policy and strategy documents. The aim was to investigate the commitment and actual use of information and co...

Intelligent Pedagogical Agents (IPAs) are software agents which have educational purposes. They are able to communicate, cooperate, discuss, and guide other students or agents. Some studies conclude that if agents look like and interact as humans, they will enhance the learning process and the motivation of the students. This paper presents a proposal to add Semantic Web Knowledge to Intelligen...

A series of engineering design courses, called global product realization, has been offered to university students of various countries in the last four years. Each course was organized with different partner companies and universities and with different pedagogical objectives. This paper summarizes the experiences considering organizational, professional, technological, pedagogical, and practi...

In this paper we present the QBLS system, a www-based intelligent learning system that completely relies on semantic web standards and technologies. It reuses a large coherent set of learning resources taken from the web and has been experienced as an online support system for lab sessions of Java programming at the Computer Science department of the EPU engineering school of Sophia Antipolis. ...

teachers can influence the complex process of learning in education, in general, and in second/foreign language (l2) learning in particular. in this light, understanding the factors influencing teachers’ pedagogical success can help l2 teachers achieve more effective teaching. this study then investigated the role of spiritual intelligence (si) in l2 teachers’ pedagogical success. in so doing, ...

The multidisciplinary field of human-computer interaction can be seen as an open-ended concept used to refer to the understanding of different relationships between people (users) and computers. The pedagogical planning within the blended learning environment with the users’ quality of interaction (QoI) with the Learning Management System (LMS) is explored here. The required QoI (both for profe...