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Mohammad Dastbaz
University of East London
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Podcasting - Delivering Learning to the iTunes Generation
Ryan Flynn; Mohammad Dastbaz
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2530–2532
The Guardian newspaper (21st October 2005) informed its readers that: "Stanford University in California is to make its course content available on iTunes...The service, Stanford on iTunes, will provide…downloads of faculty lectures, campus events,...
Topics: Educational Technology, Students
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Impact of Learning Paradigms in Games Design: How the Theory of Learning has Influenced the Design of Video Games
Ryan Flynn; Elizabeth Bacon; Mohammad Dastbaz
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 1550–1556
Abstract: This work seeks to investigate how the main theories of learning have impacted on the design of computer and video games. Starting with a basic overview of the main theories of learning (learning paradigms and hierarchical learning theory),...
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Adaptable Personalised E-Learning Systems and Practical Approach on the use of Presentation Applications
Alan Mustafa; Mohammad Dastbaz; Ray Stoneham
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 135–142
Following our last study on the effect of individuals' learning styles on their learning performance, the study pointed out that it is possible to increase the performance up to some level with considering learners' learning preferences. This paper...
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Issues in Design and Development of Personalised
Mohammad Dastbaz; Alan Mustafa; Ray Stoneham
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 767–774
Molyneux (2002) envisaged a future in which everyone will have an electronic personal learning associate. Over the past three years there has been much development in realising this vision. "Personalised" or "Adaptable" E-Learning systems has...
Topics: Educational Technology, Science, Schools, Information Sciences
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Designing metadata for learning and assessment objects
Sophie Peter; Elizabeth Bacon; Mohammad Dastbaz
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 2083–2090
Abstract: Learning resources metadata is a large research area. Standards have been developed, including IEEE LOM, SCORM and the Dublin Core Metadata initiative. This paper discusses these standards and development issues. The SCORM model can be...
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Personalised e-learning, Semantic Web and Learning Ontologies
Sophie Peter; Mohammad Dastbaz; Liz Bacon
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1818–1825
This project is aiming to move personalisation forward to the next generation, by tackling the issue of Personalised e-Learning platforms as pre-requisites for building and generating individualised learning solutions. The proposed development is...
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Mobile-Education - A paradigm shift with Technology
Johnnes Arreymbi; Esther Agbor; Mohammad Dastbaz
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5114–5122
Technology mediated learning have over the years improved and enhanced the way education can be delivered. This paper looks into how recent advances in mobile and wireless technologies could be used to facilitate and enhance the delivery of...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Adaptable, Personalised E-Learning Incorporating Learning Styles
Sophie E. Peter; Elizabeth Bacon; Mohammad Dastbaz
Campus-Wide Information Systems Vol. 27, No. 2 (2010) pp. 91–100
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss how learning styles and theories are currently used within personalised adaptable e-learning adaptive systems. This paper then aims to describe the e-learning platform iLearn and how this platform is...
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Use of Web logs (Blogs) in Learning Environments: Blogs for Student Support
Mohammad Dastbaz; Ryan Flynn; Phil Clipsham
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 607–611
Innovation in technology and communications and particularly the advent of the Web is changing the structure of teaching and learning today. While there is much debate about the use of technology in learning and how e-learning is creating new...
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Evaluation of a suitable learning style for iLearn: a personalised e-learning platform
Sophie Peter; Mohammad Dastbaz; Elizabeth Bacon
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 447–453
Brusilovsky and Millan (2007) state that learning styles are typically defined as the way people prefer to learn. Learning styles and how we learn is a vast research area and many research projects (SMILE, INSPIRE, iWeaver amongst others) attempt...
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Evaluating the personalised and adaptable learning provided by e-learning platforms
Sophie Peter; Liz Bacon; Mohammad Dastbaz
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 3089–3096
Many common e-learning platforms (for example Moodle) offer good course and learner management tools but to what extent do they offer a “personalised” learning experience for the learner? This research evaluates current common e-learning platforms...
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Research and Design Challenges for Developing Personalised eLearning Systems
Muesser Cemal Nat; Mohammad Dastbaz; Liz Bacon
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 2536–2542
While E-learning technologies are continuously developing, there are number of emerging issues and challenges that have significant impact on e-learning research and design. These include educational, technological, sociological, and psychological...
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The Use of Commercial Game Technology to Teach Video Production – Some Initial Results
Ryan Flynn; NIgel Newbutt; Mohammad Dastbaz; Jian Jun Zhang
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2002–2007
The use of commercial games to teach has been a hot topic of debate in the education sector for many years, but there seems to be a dearth of practical applications of the theory. This paper aims to publish some initial results of an experiment to...
Topics: Games
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Tagging learning objects in Moodle for personalisation and re-use
Sophie Peter; Lachlan Mackinnon; Elizabeth Bacon; Mohammad Dastbaz
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 2259–2266
Bateman et al (2007) state that tagging is largely unemployed in e-learning systems. Common e-learning platforms (for example Moodle) offer course and learner management tools, however, previous research has found that they offer little in the way...