eLearning plays an important role in educating the people across the world. With the advancements in the WWW and communication technologies the developing countries like India harness the possibilities of creating educated communities. However the lack of proper learning content and appropriate support for the learners suppress the growth of eLearning. This paper proposes Collaborative eLearnin...

PETRI-HELP supports novices in learning to model with conditionevent Petri nets. It is based on a theoretical framework recommending that a help system should offer help, let the learner use pre-knowledge, and support different problem solving levels. In PETRI-HELP the learner creates Petri nets for given tasks, test hypotheses about the solutions or fragments of them, and receive feedback, com...

Due to the opportunities provided by the Internet, more and more people are taking advantage of distance learning courses and during the last few years enormous research efforts have been dedicated to the development of distance learning systems. So far, many e-learning systems are proposed and used practically. However, in these systems the e-learning completion rate is about 30%. One of the r...

LEARNING WHILE USING AN INSTRUCTIONAL SIMULATION Tayyaba Batool Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Ginger S. Watson Learner control is thought to be valuable by some scholars who believe that it allows learners to adapt instructions to their needs while reducing cognitive load (Mayer & Moreno, 2003). Although learner control offers some advantages to the learner, the importance of an i...

The properties of training data set such as size, distribution and number of attributes significantly contribute to the generalization error of a learning machine. A not-well-distributed data set is prone to lead to a partial overfitting model. The two approaches proposed in this paper for the binary classification enhance the useful data information by mining negative data. First, error driven...

The present study was conducted to investigate if and how conversational agent can facilitate explanation activity that is conducive to learning. This was investigated through two experiments where pairs of participants, who were enrolled in a psychology course, engaged in a task of explaining to their partners the meanings of concepts of technical terms taught in the course. During the task, t...

Councelling purposefully helps the clients to improve their wellbeing, alleviate distress, resolve crises and increase their ability to be creative, innovative and make success-focused decisions wherever it is skillfully used. This study advances Multimodal Therapy as a therapeutic councelling approach for the learners support services provider with the sole aim of helping the Open and Distance...