It is our great honour to introduce the inaugural issue of EAI Transactions on Cognitive Communications. It has been more than one decade since the creation of the cognitive radio concept. The research and development of cognitive communications have then been sparked. Now the new era of communications is coming. The year of 2014 will witness the beginning of the 5G era. It is the year where co...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems are notoriously costly to construct [1], and require PhD level experience in cognitive science and rule based programming. The goal of this research was to ease the development process for building pseudo-tutors [4], which are ITS constructs that mimic cognitive tutors but are limited in that they only work for a single problem. The Assistment Builder is a system de...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems, while effective at producing student learning [2,7], are notoriously costly to construct [1,9], and require PhD level experience in cognitive science and rule based programming. The literature suggests [1,9] that it takes at least 200 hours of work to build 1 hour on ITS content. We have been engaged in building tools to reduce the development time, by allowing aut...

appropriate application of graphics in textbooks of teaching persian to speakers of other languages (tpsol) could play an important role in the process of teaching persian to non-persian speakers. according to the theories of cognitive learning, visuals, if used properly, would have a greatly positive effect in learning; however, their erroneous application can have negative result. however, it...

According to many recent studies the effect of learning style on academic performance has been found to be significant and mismatch between teaching and learning styles causes learning failure and frustration. Thus balancing the teaching style and the students’ learning style is very important. When emphasizing the individual learning processes, web-based learning offers a good opportunity for ...

As part of the Virtual University of Finland, the Connet framework offers undergraduate courses in Cognitive Science. The studies are mainly organized as web-based courses or collaborative student projects. For example, in the basic studies component, a student completes four one credit methodology courses and chooses a related assignment worth three credits for one of them. One of the methodol...

ICT tools have been developed to facilitate web-based learning through and learning about argumentation. In this paper we will present an example of a learning activity mediated by Digalo-software for knowledge sharing through visually supported discussiondeveloped in a university setting. Our aim is to examine, in particular, socio-cognitive construction of knowledge and argumentation by stude...