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The WWW&OVER project: real-time distance education and the role of the Street Singer
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2001:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2001:1
The paper describes the present state of the WWW & Over project to design techniques for the remote control of hypermedia teaching materials. It reviews the main features of the new version of the prototype for distance teaching, where teacher and...
The Management of Chrono-Referenced Events in Virtual Communities
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2004:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2004:1
While e-learning systems have generally been associated with distance learning, they can also be applied in the traditional learning environment of an academic institution. In this case the e-learning system creates, implicitly or explicitly, a...
Real Communities vs. Virtual Communities - Structural Adaptations of a Learning Management System
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2007:1
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2007:1
The paper presents our experience as projectionists, developers and administrators of an e-Learning system based on the metaphor of virtual learning communities. The system originally conceived as an auxiliary instrument to blended didactics of our...
The Architectural Impact of Virtual Communities on LMSs
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2008:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2008:1
The paper presents our experience in the construction of Learning Management Systems based on the (virtual) community metaphor, and the consequences of this choice on the architectural aspects of the platform itself. The adoption of a specific...
WAYS – What Are You Studying? A community tool for learners on the move
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2007:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2007:1
The WAYS (What Are You Studying) prototype is an attempt to use mobile technologies as a medium for creating virtual communities in learning settings. WAYS introduces the idea of "proximity learning" allowing mobile learners to enter in contact with ...
Is the web the best hypertext structure we have?
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet(WEBNETC)1999:1
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet(WEBNETC)1999:1
We present a research concerning the best way of structuring educational content on the Web. Our belief is that both the organization of the nodes and the cognitive capabilities of subjects deeply influence the learning process. We built a test with ...
Analysis of user feedback in a Learning Management System
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2003:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2003:1
The use of systems for e-learning has been widely discussed in terms of its efficiency and efficacy as part of the learning process. Less attention has been given to the fact that these systems produce, as an inherent collateral effect of their...
Tracing User Behaviour in a Virtual Community System through multi-dimensional analysis
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2007:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2007:1
The paper presents the solutions adopted in an e-learning system in order to trace and observe the didactic processes transmitted through its use. The e-learning system, object of this study, is a real system in use for some years now at the Faculty ...
Towards a Multi-Vendor Mobile Learning Management System
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2003:1
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2003:1
The paper presents Porta-bile, a project under development that intends to investigate the use of mobile computing technologies to support the learning processes in an educational context. The project focuses on the technological aspects of mobile...
Holding the storyline in an educational hypermedia
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2000:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2000:1
The paper presents a prototype that manages the reading paths in a set of multimedia
documents. It allows to create the path while the user navigates not only on Web pages, but also on local
documents or documents non necessarily on the Web. The...
Integrating Mobile Devices in a multi-platform Learning Management System using web services
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2005:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2005:1
The paper presents a prototype of integration of mobile devices (PDA, smartphones, Cellular phones) with a Learning Management System. There are many interesting aspects that could be imagined when this integration takes place. People mobility in...
SCORM-based webcasting and Learning Environment: architectural and technical issues
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2008:1
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2008:1
The paper presents the architectural and technical issues that the adoption of SCORM standard can present inside a learning environment. Specifically, we present our experience in packaging all the learning materials related to a single lecture into ...
An alternative system to deliver and manage on-line courses
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2002:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2002:1
The paper describes the experience of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Trento, Italy, in delivering on-line courses through the Web. The system has been built from scratch, thus choosing to "make" rather than to "buy" it. We discuss...
Pragmatic adaptability for e-learning systems
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2005:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2005:1
Software engineers have pursued for a long time the technological aim of the adaptability of a Web-based system to the users needs. In general, the working hypothesis in these studies is that the system has a description of users preferences (User...
Is new necessarily good? Testing usability of the new Office 2007 user interface
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2008:1
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications(EDMEDIA)2008:1
In this paper we present a preliminary usability test of Microsoft™ Office 2007 new interface. It is interesting to consider the impact of this radical change in a well-known UI like Microsoft Office because of the large number of users involved....
From e-learning to Social Networking: a Case Study
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2008:1
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education(ELEARN)2008:1
The paper presents a case study concerning the evolution of an e-Learning system in a more participating platform, according to the collaborative paradigms typical of Web 2.0. Some typically “web 2.0” tools, such as wikis, blogs, etc., are beginning ...
Technological Platforms for Lifelong Learning Projects: the Dimension of Time
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society(JELKS)4:1, 2008
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society(JELKS)4:1, 2008
The supplying platforms are one of the technological requirements of every e-learning project. It seems, therefore, quite natural to imagine that these systems, normally known as Learning Management Systems (LMS), should also be usable for Lifelong...
The development of a Mobile Communities Application
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society(JELKS)5:3, 2009
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society(JELKS)5:3, 2009
The study describes the development of the mobile extensions of a virtual system community, result of the cooperation between the Laboratory of Maieutics of the University of Trento and the Institute of Advanced Management System Research (IAMSR),...
The production of learning objects and the activity of facilitating learning: an hypothesis of cost quantifcation
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society(JELKS)6:1, 2010
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society(JELKS)6:1, 2010
In this paper we developed a model for better understanding the ratio between costs, production of didactic material and activity of monitoring and facilitating learning processes. The perspective adopted is that of a public body (the Autonomous...
Shifting from traditional LMSs to Virtual Community Systems
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society(JELKS)3:2, 2007
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society(JELKS)3:2, 2007
The paper presents our experience in designing, implementing and maintaining the “Online Communities” project. Since 1999, a Learning Management System was used by teachers and students of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Trento, based...