Educational games facilitate players’ experiences, meet desired pedagogical objectives, and allow users to engage in learning while enjoying themselves. These educational games also give learners immediate feedback on their ...

eLearning systems look into specifications to ensure some level of homogeneity in specific issues. Well-known Learning Management Systems (LMSs) develop useful functionalities adapted to teachers and learners mainly. These ...

Students usually find difficult to estimate if their effort in learning courses finds the instructor expectations. They tend to estimate "if they are doing right" by comparing themselves with peers, but this is difficult ...

User models - the representation of user properties, preferences, goals, etc. - are crucial in modern educational applications. Several related processes, such as recommendations and user adaptations, depend on a user ...

Game·Tel is an open source software system that supports personalized learning, focusing on serious games and simulations, making these and traditional content accessible and adaptive to the student and educational context. ...

The phenomenal development of MOOCs in recent years has made an earthquake in the field of higher education globally. In essence, it is less a localized revolution that simply applies internet technologies into education, ...

The e-learning has until quite recently been marked by considerable attention paid to MOOCs. One of the disruptive innovations introduced by MOOCs is the open access to the process of teaching and learning. The impact of ...

MOOCs have been in the spotlight since its debut in China in 2012. Later, MOOC platforms and relevant courses developed by different organizations sprung up like mushrooms. Now MOOCs can be seen in multiple forms in practice ...

MOOC platforms in China have achieved quite some scale in China with its development since 2012. Built either by universities or enterprises on their own, or by regional coalitions or school–enterprise partnerships, MOOC ...

This chapter explores the potential impact of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the international aspects of university development, claiming that the development and offering of MOOCs can affect not only universities’ ...