This paper compares approaches to visualising data for users in educational settings, contrasting visual learning analytics and open learner models. We consider the roots of each, and identify how each field can learn from experiences and approaches of the other, thereby benefiting both.

Rapid development of technology is opening new perspectives for business, entertainment, and education. Learning with the help of technology is providing new opportunities for learners. E-learning is grasping with big steps into diverse areas engaging more and more different methods and activities. Lot of developments and lot of experiences are present in the field of e-learning everywhere in t...

Working together while accomplishing a task is a characteristic of a powerful learning environment that aims at active knowledge construction. Studies have demonstrated that collaborative learning by using asynchronous communication tools can have advantages over collaboration in a face-to-face setting. However, it is questionable whether students are able and willing to learn collaboratively t...

Universities that wish to expand their provision beyond their local catchment areas need to consider whether to bring the students to the tuition or take the tuition to the students. Current-day educational and information technologies make the latter option a much more achievable prospect than it has been in the past. Nevertheless, careful consideration needs to be given to the nature of the d...

New educational technologies and online learning environments (OLEs) are infiltrating today’s college classes and campuses. While research has examined many aspects of this permeation, one research gap exists. How do faculty perceive the learning experience in courses that use OLEs compared to courses that do not? One important factor that may influence faculty perceptions are their reasons for...

Team-based Learning (TBL) is a relatively new pedagogic approach to teaching that makes extensive use of intensive, interactive team activities in the classroom to deepen learning. To date, TBL has been deployed almost entirely in traditional on-campus classes. This paper outlines a strategy and preliminary framework to enhance team communication and strengthen group dynamics, leveraging online...

Quality in education has been regognized as an issue that should guide our efforts for improvement for many years. eLearning is the latest attempt to take advantage of developments in technology to improve learning. In this paper, we discuss the possibility of establishing a theory of elearning, the value of design patterns, and the possible scenarios of implementation by higher education insti...

So far, e-learning has primarily been used when there are many learners involved. The up-front investments related to e-learning are relatively high, and may be perceived as prohibitive for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Some e-learning is, however, getting less expensive, and some e-learning models are more suited for small-scale training than others. Therefore, this article presen...

Some of the issues arising from the development of this pilot course are discussed, together with the experiences of the project team in bringing it through to a successful pilot. These have included not only technical matters, but also managerial, pedagogic and classroom control issues that are often neglected. Only if all these are addressed can large-scale distance-learning activities be dev...

This qualitative case study explored learner experiences in online courses. This short paper present the model developed from the data analysis that shows the online learning experiences of the participants in the study.