{"title":"Universal Access and Content Adaptation in Mobile Learning","authors":"Stephen J. H. Yang, I. Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.339","url":null,"abstract":"Universal access is known as the concept of facilitating accesses to the desired data according to the varying capabilities and characteristics of users. Universal access aims to be capable of recognizing and responding to the presence of different context in a seamless, unobtrusive and often invisible way. To achieve this goal, two important issues need to be solved, they are context awareness and content adaptation. In this paper, context is referred to as contextual information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity where an entity can be a person, a place, a physical or computational object. The contextual information can be where and when the users are (time and space), as well as what the content are available nearby, and etc","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"56 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":"123543435","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}
M. Grigoriadou, E. Gouli, A. Gogoulou, M. Samarakou
{"title":"Serving Learning and Assessment in SCALE","authors":"M. Grigoriadou, E. Gouli, A. Gogoulou, M. Samarakou","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.283","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a Web-based educational setting, referred to as SCALE (supporting collaboration and adaptation in a learning environment), which aims to serve learning and assessment. SCALE supports individualized and collaborative learning and engages learners in different forms of assessment by providing various functions and by embedding a number of tools. Personalized navigation support and feedback are offered, based on learner's knowledge level and preferences","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"38 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":"116206548","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":"Mobile Technology and Content Delivery in Education","authors":"R. McGreal, Kinshuk","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.233","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this workshop is to identify various issues that are pertinent to the development and delivery of content in the context of mobile devices. The workshop will focus on identifying ways to achieve reusability, interoperability, adaptivity of content delivery to the user and to the devices, and user friendliness while still focusing on pedagogical requirements and enhanced learning experiences.","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":"122532978","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}
R. Klamma, Mohamed Amine Chatti, E. Duval, Sebastian Fiedler, Hans G. K. Hummel, E. Hvannberg, Andreas Kaibel, Barbara Kieslinger, M. Kravcík, E. Law, Ambjörn Naeve, Peter J. Scott, M. Specht, C. Tattersall, Riina Vuorikari
{"title":"Social Software for Professional Learning: Examples and Research Issues","authors":"R. Klamma, Mohamed Amine Chatti, E. Duval, Sebastian Fiedler, Hans G. K. Hummel, E. Hvannberg, Andreas Kaibel, Barbara Kieslinger, M. Kravcík, E. Law, Ambjörn Naeve, Peter J. Scott, M. Specht, C. Tattersall, Riina Vuorikari","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.295","url":null,"abstract":"Social software is used widely in organizational knowledge management and professional learning. The PROLEARN network of excellence appreciates the trend of lowering the barriers between knowledge and learning management strategies for organizations and individuals. But, companies should not underestimate the needs for systematic support based on sound theories and technologies. We illustrate the requirements by examples and research issues for collaborative adaptive learning platforms for workplace learning in organizations","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"186 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":"123004581","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 IMS-LD Editor to Describe a Tutoring Activity in an On-line Training","authors":"P. Gounon, P. Leroux, Xavier Dubourg","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.63","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an environment which supports the on-line education designer when describing a pedagogical scenario. The idea is to propose a formalism to illustrate a pedagogical scenario in terms of a description of a learning situation (learning scenario) and the interactions between learners and tutors (tutoring scenario). Our research focuses precisely on the tutoring activity design. We aim to specify roles and tutor involvement and also to describe the tools supporting tutor activity. First of all, we present the Triton model to guide learner accompaniment specification definition in terms of tasks and tools supporting their activities and its reification in IMS LD. Lastly, we describe EdiScenE founded on these two propositions","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":"116848746","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":"Expressing Workshop Scenario with Computer Independent Model","authors":"J. David, A. Lejeune, Emmanuelle Villiot-Leclercq","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.170","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution for the workshop aims to establish a link between the initial expression of the planet game scenario, viewed by a teacher, and its computable expression","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"1 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":"129872476","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":"Virtually Collaborating Across Cultures: A Case Study of an Online Theatrical Performance in a 3DCVE Spanning Three Continents","authors":"T. Wyeld, E. Prasolova-Førland, T. Chang","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.350","url":null,"abstract":"Much information communication technology (ICT) design work involves international collaboration. This requires cross-cultural understandings with one's co-collaborators. There are few opportunities for this to occur in a pedagogical setting. This paper outlines a pedagogically-oriented case study of the use of a 3D collaborative virtual environment (3DCVE). The 3D co-located laboratory (3DCollab) described in this paper served as a cross-cultural exchange platform. It fostered deeper understandings of alternate meanings to everyday social and work practices and design computing assumptions. The project involved students across three cooperating institutions, on three different continents in different time zones. It builds on previous exercises conducted by the authors","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"22 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":"128591589","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":"Modern Language Information Technologies: How they Help Japanese Students","authors":"V. Klyuev","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.240","url":null,"abstract":"There are several universities in Japan where English is the official language of instruction. Japanese students are expected to read numerous scientific papers and books in English as well as write reports using their second language. This paper presents different language information technologies that support students in their study. We investigate features of Web technologies and hand-held devices. We conducted a survey among first and second year students to analyze how they use technologies to improve their comprehension of teaching materials. From the results, we conclude the following: students have to be trained to ensure that they know the details of the technologies and to apply them in practice","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"187 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":"129332294","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":"Social Agents to Improve Collaboration on an Educational Portal","authors":"E. Boff, E. R. Santos, R. Vicari","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.291","url":null,"abstract":"Cooperative learning is changing the learning environments design. Intelligent tutoring systems, multi-agent systems, affective computing and virtual characters, are techniques and resources to improve the individual and personalized learning. In this research direction, this paper presents a socio-affective agent whose reasoning is based on individual aspects of the student, as affective states, personality and acceptance, and group aspects, as cohesion. This socio-affective agent is being integrated in the AMPLIA environment, an intelligent probabilistic multi-agent environment to support the diagnostic reasoning development and the diagnostic hypotheses modeling of domains with complex and uncertain knowledge, like medical area. In order to provide semantic interoperability between the environment's agents we are using an OWL (Web Ontology Language)","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"15 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":"129645091","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":"Structuring Semantic Web ITS","authors":"A. Jacinto, J. P. D. Oliveira","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2006.297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2006.297","url":null,"abstract":"Most of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) using semantic Web and ontology concepts put their focus on learning objects (LO) aspects and, generally, do not include a clear representation of a pedagogical model. The relationship among all the system architecture's components and how the use of semantic Web and ontology can improve the interoperability among these components are other aspects not clearly addressed. As a way to address these drawbacks, an architecture with a clear separation of concerns of its components, with each component represented by a specific ontology, has been used. Despite only a prototype has been implemented, it has been possible to visualize the soundness of the chosen approach","PeriodicalId":394051,"journal":{"name":"Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06)","volume":"52 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":"126767067","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}