{"title":"Understanding ice phases with virtual environments","authors":"J. Trindade, C. Fiolhais","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890617","url":null,"abstract":"Immersive virtual reality experiences have been considered a domain for games or military training. However, the use of three-dimensional environments became also essential in several scientific areas such as fluid dynamics, chemistry, etc. In science education, it is also becoming popular since it facilitates the development of correct scientific models. \"Virtual Water\" is a virtual environment allowing the exploration of the molecular constituents of water as well as some of the macroscopic structures made up by them. Hydrogen bonding is the key feature for understanding the physical and chemical properties of water. Solid water has a rich phase diagram that is still not fully understood. We show how to explore some solid phases as well as clusters, which are intermediate structures between the molecule and the solid.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125039681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use and misuse of graphic animations and simulations in educational systems","authors":"R. Lelouche","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890638","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents one of the panels proposed at the International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies (IWALT 2000) taking place in Palmerston North (New Zealand) on 4-6 December 2000. It deals with the ways graphic animations and simulations are used, should be used, and should not be used, in educational systems.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131111368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge objects and mental models","authors":"David Merrill, David A. Wiley","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890621","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes knowledge components that are thought to be appropriate and sufficient to precisely describe certain types of cognitive subject matter content (knowledge). It also describes knowledge structures that show the relationships among these knowledge components and among other knowledge objects. It suggests that a knowledge structure is a form of schema such as those that learners use to represent knowledge in memory. A mental model is a schema plus cognitive processes for manipulating and modifying the knowledge stored in a schema. We suggested processes that enable learners to manipulate the knowledge components of conceptual network knowledge structures for purposes of classification, generalization, and concept elaboration. We further suggested processes that enable learners to manipulate the knowledge components of process knowledge structures (PEAnets) for purposes of explanation, prediction, and troubleshooting. The hypothesis of this paper is that knowledge components and knowledge structures, such as those described in this paper, could serve as meta mental models that would enable learners to more easily acquire conceptual and causal networks and their associated processes. The resulting specific mental models would facilitate their ability to solve problems of conceptualization and interpretation.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133405027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An effective item selection method for educational measurement","authors":"Koun-Tem Sun","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890579","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the test information function of the item response theory (IRT), the high quality parallel test forms can be constructed for educational measurement. Many methods have been designed to construct a test that approximates the target test for containing the similar test information functions. We propose a more effective method that can greatly reduce the error of the test information functions of parallel tests generated by other methods. Experimental results show that this method sharply reduces error with improvement ratios exceeding 96%. In addition, the computational complexity of our method is the same as that of other methods. This method should greatly aid in the construction of parallel test forms.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130138978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering design to manufacture through a virtual environment","authors":"B. Parkinson, P. Hudson","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890614","url":null,"abstract":"Using a concurrent engineering design philosophy, the paper describes a means by which multimedia systems may be employed to assist in experiential learning of the engineering design process. The system employs knowledge bases to emulate experts acting as virtual team members who assist in making the decisions necessary to arrive at a design solution that satisfies a user-established product design specification. The manufacture of the proposed design is carried out in a virtual workshop and the resulting product is tested in a working environment. Feedback on the final design and on the resulting manufactured product is provided through a simulated race where users are able to compete with peer-derived solutions.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114966900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensor-enabled computer-based training for augmenting science education","authors":"M. S. Datta, S. Gupta","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890583","url":null,"abstract":"This paper gives the results of an experiment that was conducted in India to validate teaching units that were created combining instruction and experimentation. It also describes the pedagogy behind lesson construction, and proposes a methodology that can be used in the instructional design of such teaching units.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132166459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A navigation path planning on the Web","authors":"A. Kashihara, R. Suzuki, S. Hasegawa, J. Toyoda","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890557","url":null,"abstract":"The main issue addressed in this paper is how to help learners navigate in existing Web-based learning resources. Our approach to this issue is to provide learners with a space, in which they can see through WWW pages to plan a navigation path in a learner-centered way. We describe an assistant system for the navigation path planning, which is composed of a hyperspace map, page previewer and path previewer. The page previewer generates an overview of each WWW page in the map by extracting representative information from the HTML file. The path previewer helps learners make a sequence of the pages previewed as a navigation path plan. These facilities help learners decide which page to visit and plan a navigation path without visiting hyperspace.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133214289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CETADL: a research and development facility for e-learning","authors":"I. Pearshouse, M. Sharples","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890602","url":null,"abstract":"Just as most large companies have a research and development unit to promote innovation, develop new products and services, and evaluate designs, so universities entering the global market for electronic learning need facilities to research, develop and test new approaches to technology-mediated teaching and learning. This is the function of the Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Learning (CETADL) at the University of Birmingham (UK). The paper gives an overview of the Centre, in terms of how its structure and operation address general requirements for the design of a research facility for e-learning in higher education.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116580785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A hybrid approach to represent and deliver curriculum contents","authors":"I. Fung","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890610","url":null,"abstract":"Proposes a novel way of representing curriculum knowledge. The representation allows greater flexibility in delivering adaptive learning advice in terms of tailor-made study plans. As the notion of Web-based learning keeps marching on triumphantly, more and more teaching/learning materials are accumulating on the servers, but the desperate need for a structured organization of these materials seems to have been overlooked by the community. This paper addresses this issue by proposing a hybrid scheme for representing curriculum knowledge which can cater both for the nominal learning prerequisite links as well as the sub-super inter-nodal relationships in the form of a course hierarchy. Once a course has been represented, different study plans can be generated, and they can be adapted to suit the learning styles of different students. The scheme is based on a combination of standard directed graphs and a modified form of statecharts.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125745875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A flexible scheme for representing and retrieving multimedia contents in computer-based educational systems","authors":"E. Heinrich, R. Kemp","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890611","url":null,"abstract":"Computer-based educational systems are faced with an increasing range of challenges. The use of multimedia provides a number of technical and conceptual demands, the volume and nature of the material requires sophisticated knowledge representation techniques, and a continuously increasing level of interactivity between learner and system is desired. This paper suggests a concept for an advanced learning system which addresses these issues. The concept is based on the Flexible Structured Coding Language (FSCL), a natural-language-like formalised description language. A range of extensions regarding the use of ontologies, the inference of knowledge and the formulation of free-form queries based on FSCL are discussed.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122286084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}