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EDUFORM – A Tool for Creating Adaptive Questionnaires
International Journal on E-Learning (IJEL) 4:3 , 2005

Miikka Miettinen & Petri Nokelainen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland; Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland; Tomi Silander, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland; Henry Tirri, Nokia Research Center, Nokia Group, Finland

Questionnaire data have many important uses, but is laborious for the subjects to provide. EDUFORM tries to alleviate this problem by enabling the creation of adaptive online questionnaires. The idea is to build a probabilistic model from previously ...

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Bayesian Modeling Approach to Implement an Adaptive Questionnaire
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2001:1 , 2001

Petri Nokelainen, Markku Niemivirta, Henry Tirri, Miikka Miettinen, Jaakko Kurhila & Tomi Silander, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland

An adaptive questionnaire, named EDUFORM, is based on Bayesian statistical techniques that both optimize the number of propositions presented to each respondent and create an individual learner profile. The preliminary results show that reducing the ...

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Use of Social Navigation Features in Collaborative E-Learning
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2002:1 , 2002

Petri Nokelainen & Henry Tirri, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland; Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland; Miikka Miettinen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland

EDUCO is a system for collaborative learning that uses real-time direct social navigation. Social navigation means making the navigation of other users visible to everyone else in the system. The paper discusses the social navigation features of...

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A Tool for Real Time On-Line Collaboration in Web-Based Learning
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2002:1 , 2002

Miikka Miettinen, Henry Tirri & Petri Nokelainen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland; Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland

The paper describes the design and implementation of a real time on-line collaboration tool, EDUCO. The main focus is to demonstrate how the tool is applied to a real life on-line distance-education course, discuss the preliminary research findings...

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Rambling Through the Wilds: A Concept of Jagged Study Zones
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2002:1 , 2002

Veijo Meisalo, University of Helsinki, Finland; Erkki Sutinen & Petri Gerdt, University of Joensuu, Finland; Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland; Jarkko Suhonen, University of Joensuu, Finland

The jagged study zone model helps designers to create educational environments which challenge the learner and make the learner to commit to the learning process. The characteristics of a jagged study zone can be explained by showing how its...

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Adaptive Profiling Tool for Teacher Education
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2002:1 , 2002

Miikka Miettinen & Petri Nokelainen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland; Jaakko Kurhila, Tomi Silander & Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland

In this paper we introduce EDUFORM, an adaptive questionnaire designed for profiling students in various educational contexts. The idea is to build a probabilistic model from previously gathered data, and use it for profiling other people more...

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Joint Annotation and Knowledge Building in Collaborative E-Learning
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2003:1 , 2003

Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland; Miikka Miettinen, Petri Nokelainen, Patrik Floréen & Henry Tirri, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland

Tools to enable joint annotation help in collaborative knowledge building in e-learning. EDUCOSM is a system that offers two types of annotation, namely highlights and comments, on any Web-page that are visible to other learners immediately. The...

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From Intelligent Tutoring Systems to Intelligent Learning Materials
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2000:1 , 2000

Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland; Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland

Special education offers a challenging background for designers of educational software. One learner group are those who have deficiencies in mental programming: they have difficulties in structuring a learning task in its entirety, and organizing ...

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The Role of Inservice Teachers’ Motivation, Learning Strategy and Social Ability Profiles in a CSCL Environment
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2003:1 , 2003

Pekka Ruohotie, University of Tampere, Finland; Henry Tirri, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland; Petri Nokelainen, University of Tampere, Finland; Miikka Miettinen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland; Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland

The process of employing Finnish inservice teacher's (N=54) self-rated motivation, learning strategy, and social ability profile into collaborative learning tasks of an on-line learning environment was investigated. The profile information was...

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EDUCO: Social Navigation and Group Formation in Student-Centred E-Learning
Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR) 18:1 , January 2007

Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland; Mikka Miettinen & Petri Nokelainen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland; Henry Tirri, Nokia Research Center, Finland

EDUCO is a system that enhances the sense of other users in a collaborative learning environment by making the other users and their navigation visible to everyone else in the environment in real-time. This article presents Educo and empirical...

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“Unauthorized” Use of Social Software to Support Formal Higher Education
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2006:1 , October 2006

Jaakko Kurhila, Asian Inst. of Tech and Univ. of Helsinki, Thailand

Traditionally structured formal education does not support excursions to external resources available through the Internet. However, students in a formal learning context could benefit from the resources, even if the course structures or...

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Activating Students in E-Learning - Tools, Time and Support
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2008:1 , Nov 17, 2008

Lena Selänne, IT Department, University of Helsinki, Finland; Jaakko Kurhila, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

It is well-known that the most active are responsible for most of the visible activity in web-courses. However, there are several ways to involve all the students. In this article we compare two university-level web courses in computer science. The...

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