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Since its release in 1991, the World Wide Web (or Web)has changed the Internet to the extent that it has become almost synonmouswith the modern use of the Internet. In recent years, we are beginning tosee more and more open learning materials,...

Educational applications that run on mobile devices are fast emerging. Yet one crucial area that has received little attention to date involves the learning styles of users and whether these affect their rate of learning. The literature suggests...

Recent concerns in integrated e-learning systems are of managing the millions of learning objects created, addressing disorganization, lack of use and reuse of these learning objects. An understanding on how learning objects should be designed,...

As e-learning environments become more popular, many studies have been proposed to provide adaptive environments offering learners and educators customized courses for more effective learning and course construction. Some solutions are aimed at...

In this paper, we describe a survey conducted on a local polytechnic in Singapore to investigate factors affecting lecturers' readiness in the use of educational technologies and tools, learning models or standards, instructional approaches for e...

Designing e-learning systems is challenging and demands a more rigorous engineering approach, testing and re-testing with real users. Hence, this paper is about employing an engineering approach, getting empirical feedback of users’ perceptions of e-...

In contrast with quantitative usability evaluations, qualitative evaluations are often criticized for not producing statistically significant findings because of the small sample population used in the studies. Using a case study of a good e...

The paper describes a pilot study applying the well-referenced OCC cognitive theory of emotions to investigate learners’ emotions while using a learning package designed for young children (6-8 years old). Specifically, the study aims to examine...

The paper reports a study focused on investigating factors that might influence students’ intention towards using mobile devices as learning tools in their education purposes. Using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a base model, we developed a...

Argumentation plays an important role in learning processes. However, due to the difficulties in modeling human cognitive processes with computers, there are few computer-based learning systems that facilitate argumentation dialogues between...

Wikipedia, biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet, is popular with students. Is Wikipedia a bane or wane for our students? This paper describes an empirical study to investigate determinant factors of information use or...

This paper describes an empirical study to investigate students’ continuance intention to use the Second Life Virtual Classroom (SLVC). Based on the Decomposed Expectation Disconfirmation Theory model, we developed a theoretical, research model to...