The interactions that students have with each other, with the instructors, and with educational resources are valuable indicators of the effectiveness of a learning experience. The increasing use of information and ...

Web accessibility guidelines help developers to create websites which can more easily be used by people with different limitations. The principles and techniques of accessibility focus on the suitable use of standard Web ...

This paper presents how virtual containers enhance the implementation of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) subjects as Open Educational Resources (OER). The publication initially summarizes the ...

Students' acquisition of generic skills is a key to their incorporation into the job world. However, teachers encounter several difficulties when measuring their students' performance in generic skills. These difficulties ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow the participation of hundreds of students who are interested in a wide range of areas. Given the huge attainable enrollment rate, it is almost impossible to suggest complex homework ...

Background: Cognitive skills training for minimally invasive surgery has traditionally relied upon diverse tools, such as seminars or lectures. Web technologies for e-learning have been adopted to provide ubiquitous training ...

Introduction: E-learning web environments, including the new TELMA platform, are increasingly being used to provide cognitive training in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) to surgeons. A complete validation of this MIS ...

One of the main challenges in modern education is to blend formal official learning with a huge variety of content provision, group discussion, self-entrepreneurship, user’s own portfolio, and long lists of possibilities ...

Recommenders are central in current applications to help the user find useful information spread in large amounts of data. Most Recommenders are more effective when huge amounts of user data are available in order to ...

This paper presents an application scenario of a rule-based recommender model (LIME) to a PSLC cognitive tutor analytics database. LIME is a recommendation model which provides a formative support to students, tutors and ...