This article addresses issues concerning the suitability of particular media as mass communication tools in an UK higher education setting. It looks firstly at the use of email as a communication method whilst managing large modules. The article then goes on to examine the use of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to provide a mass communication method more suited to the needs of both the sta...

Authoring tools in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are designed to make it easier for tutors the use of Artificial Intelligence tools. Authoring tools allow tutors to develop adaptive, learner-centered courses that promote interaction between students and virtual tutors. This article presents a review of Virtual Reality (VR) tools for the creation of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). In p...

The rapid development in new technologies and media and widespread access to the Internet is changing how people teach and learn. Recognizing the potential of technology, schools and universities are placing more content online from fully deliverable courses to course catalogs, course registration, and college admissions. People are able to gain access to a multitude of information with one cli...

The success of a virtual learning environment (VLE) depends to a considerable extent on student acceptance and use of such an e-learning system. After critically assessing models of technology adoption, including the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), TAM2, and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Usage of Technology (UTAUT), we build a conceptual model to explain the differences between indivi...

Abstract The aim of this study is to identify the attitude science teachers towards usage Frog VLE in teaching and learning primary science. sample consisted 148 Cameron Highlands Taiping (45 male 103 female). Data collected by questionnaire which contains 40 questions with 5 Likert scale. independent t test One-way ANOVA used answer research questions. Findings indicated that have neutral Ther...

iSocial is an internet-based 3D-Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to support social and behavioral outcomes for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The purpose of developing this system is to expand access to specialized training for developing social competence. iSocial seeks to adapt and implement in a 3D-VLE a clinic-based curriculum with demonstrated impact for improving social com...

This interactive demo features MIXER, a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) consisting of synthetic characters representing the various actors in a scenario group difference scenario. MIXER creates virtual dramas by using interactive narrative with those characters. The goal is to enable children to identify social rule differences, by interacting with one of the characters to which they become ...

A study of a learning management system (LMS) used by two secondary school teachers to deliver a unit of work to middle-school students was conducted to examine the planning and development of a virtual learning environment (VLE) and determine the LMS’s effect on pedagogy. Data was elicited via observation of the teachers’ planning sessions, interviews and a survey rating teachers’ perceptions ...

This paper presents findings collected from a collaborative implementation project established in Spring 2008 between Aalborg University’s IT-department in the Faculty of Social Science (FSS) and the E-Learning Cooperation Unit (ELSA) with the view to implement Moodle in FSS. The purpose of this cooperation was conceived from an organisational desire to establish a virtual learning environment ...