J. Sierra, Alfredo Fernández-Valmayor, Mercedes Guinea
{"title":"Exploiting Author-Designed Domain-Specific Descriptive Markup Languages in the Production of Learning Content","authors":"J. Sierra, Alfredo Fernández-Valmayor, Mercedes Guinea","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.166","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe an approach to the production of learning resources where authors (students and instructors) are actively involved in the production process. This active involvement is achieved by using descriptive markup technologies. Authors are compelled to produce learning resources in the form of documents, and to make the structure of these documents explicit by creating and using descriptive markup languages. This lets developers formalize these author-designed markup languages and provide suitable transformation specifications for translating these marked documents into their final presentations. We exemplify this approach with the production of DHTML pages by Ph.D. students in archaeology, oriented to be used as resources owned by reusable learning objects in Chasqui, an authoring and deployment tool used in the virtualization of academic museums at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115153571","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}
Christian Martel, Laurence Vignollet, Christine Ferraris, J. David, A. Lejeune
{"title":"LDL: An Alternative EML","authors":"Christian Martel, Laurence Vignollet, Christine Ferraris, J. David, A. Lejeune","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.212","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the foundations of LDL and the associated infrastructure LDL. It explains why we have chosen to define this new EML instead of using an existing one like IMS-LD","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"9 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115470665","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":"Towards the Next Generation of E-Learning Standards: SCORM for Service-Oriented Environments","authors":"G. Vossen, P. Westerkamp","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.331","url":null,"abstract":"An important research topic in the field of e-learning platform architectures focuses on service orientation. Although service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are well-understood in the field of software engineering, the e-learning community has started only recently to discuss SOAs for e-learning. This paper takes a closer look at the implications of service orientation on SCORM, because this new type of e-learning platform architecture offers a different way of reusing content and functionalities. SCORM is widely accepted by e-learning manufacturers to establish a distributed learning environment model that fosters the interoperability of learning tools and course content. It is near at hand to use the SCORM approach also for service-oriented e-learning environments. However, as is shown in this paper, several improvements have to be executed to specify a SCORM version for a SOA","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116786494","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":"Instruction Through The Ages: Building Pervasive Virtual Instructors for Life Long Learning","authors":"J. Doswell","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.197","url":null,"abstract":"A pervasive virtual instructor is an artificially intelligent instructor that may appear transparent to the learner or appear in the form of a three-dimensional graphical character, digital toy, or robot with capabilities to inhabit mixed reality environments, and provide personalized instruction anytime, anywhere, and at an-pace. Similarly to pedagogical agents, or traditional virtual instructors, pervasive virtual instructors are expected to behave autonomously, respond to human verbal/non-verbal input, and deliver information to human users. Unique to pervasive virtual instructors in this paper are capabilities to provide instruction across distributed networks, interact with human learners using context-aware intelligence, and apply empirically researched pedagogical/andragogical techniques. Technology challenges remain for building pervasive virtual instructors to achieve aforementioned capabilities. This paper summarizes technical challenges and an approach for building pervasive instructors that provide life long instructional services","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116939518","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":"Peer Review for Life","authors":"C. Coit, Kira Stöwe","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.259","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a Web-based application, the PCS-Tool, which can be used for carrying out online peer review. The tool makes it easy to bring together communities of learners from all walks of life for purposes of sharing their written work and receiving feedback on it. In this completely learner-centered environment, writers are able to gain confidence about their written texts before they turn them in for the critical judgment of for example, a teacher, publisher, or group. By taking away the focus on a teacher as the only evaluator of one's texts and opening the way for peer-to-peer feedback, a door is opened for life-long learners","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"11 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120904425","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}
Ioanna Papadimitriou, Georgios Fiotakis, A. Stoica, V. Komis, N. Avouris
{"title":"Bridging the Gap between Physical and Abstract Worlds: Capturing Observed Phenomena in Abstract Models through MODELLINGSPACE","authors":"Ioanna Papadimitriou, Georgios Fiotakis, A. Stoica, V. Komis, N. Avouris","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.95","url":null,"abstract":"Observation and understanding of real world activities and phenomena is a basis of inquiry and reasoning and subsequently building of scientific knowledge. This involves moving from the perception of real world phenomena to constructing and exploring qualitative and quantitative relations that hold among the main elements. The transition between the two phases is not always smooth for the learners involved. In this paper, we present tools and activities that attempt to bridge the gap between the physical world experience and the abstract modeling and reasoning phase. Firstly, we discuss a modeling approach and the various representations involved. Then, we present the Video2Frames tool of ModellingSpace which is proposed to be used in order to create educational material by allowing the creation of abstract entities from video recordings of phenomena. Next an example of creation of educational material, using this approach is presented and discussed","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"17 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120910702","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":"Rapid Authoring of Intelligent Tutors for Real-World and Experimental Use","authors":"V. Aleven, J. Sewall, B. McLaren, K. Koedinger","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652575","url":null,"abstract":"Authoring tools for intelligent tutoring systems are especially valuable if they not only provide a rich set of options for the efficient authoring of tutoring systems but also support controlled experiments in which the added educational value of new tutor features is evaluated. The cognitive tutor authoring tools (CTAT) provide both. Using CTAT, real-world \"example-tracing tutors\" can be created without programming. CTAT also provides various kinds of support for controlled experiments, such as administration of different experimental treatments, logging, and data analysis. We present two case studies in which example-tracing tutors created with CTAT were used in classroom experiments. The case studies illustrate a number of new features in CTAT: use of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for creating tutor interfaces, extensions to the example-tracing engine that allow for more flexible tutors, a mass production facility for more efficient template-based authoring, and support for controlled experiments","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127446738","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":"Augmented Learning: Context-Aware Mobile Augmented Reality Architecture for Learning","authors":"J. Doswell","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.84","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile augmented reality system (MARS) based e-learning environments equip a learner with a mobile wearable see-through display that interacts with training/learning software. MARS has the potential to adapt to individual learner needs and dynamically distribute tailored instruction to improve learning performance for a life time. While using MARS, learners may interact with their natural environment while MARS digitally annotates real-world objects with digital content. This digital content may combine multi-modal animation, graphics, text, and video as well as voice used to augment instruction based on empirical pedagogical models. The challenge, however, is building a MARS software architecture that fulfills this potential and is also reusable, interoperable, and adaptive to individual augmented reality (AR) \"heads-up displays\" while, at the same time, capable of delivering personalized instruction to the learner","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124808278","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}
José Antonio Marcos-García, A. Martínez-Monés, Y. Dimitriadis, R. Anguita
{"title":"Adapting Interaction Analysis to Support Evaluation and Regulation: A Case Study","authors":"José Antonio Marcos-García, A. Martínez-Monés, Y. Dimitriadis, R. Anguita","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.43","url":null,"abstract":"Interaction analysis has become a basic function in the field of collaborative learning, as a means for supporting both regulation and evaluation of collaborative learning processes. In spite of the fact that these processes rely on the same basic functionalities, there is a lack of proposals or systems that integrate them. The most outstanding difference between the tools that support either of the approaches is that they are oriented to different types of users. Then, an interaction analysis tool able to adapt to different roles would be able to perform both functionalities. This paper presents an experience performed in an authentic learning scenario using interaction analysis for supporting regulation for students and evaluation for teachers adapting its functionality depending on analysis needs of teacher and learners that participate in the activity. A first evaluation carried out shows that the participants assess positively this experience and consider the information received easy to understand, reliable, useful and capable to modify their way of collaboration","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125859545","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":"Drawing Things Together: Integrating Modalities and Co-ordinating Understanding","authors":"P. Healey","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.148","url":null,"abstract":"Graphical dialogue - the collaborative construction and modification of drawings - forms an integrated part of many human interactions e.g., the construction of sketch maps, architectural designs or explanatory diagrams. Empirical studies have shown significant parallels between the basic mechanisms that underpin verbal and graphical dialogue. These parallels point to the operation of generic mechanisms of interaction that integrate events in different modalities into composite communicative signals. This provides a useful perspective on the design of technologically mediated interactions and suggests there is potential for developing richer forms of human interaction","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126146642","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}