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International Journal on E-Learning

2005

Editors

Gary H. Marks

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Table of Contents

Number of papers: 13

  1. Preface/Special Issue: Supporting E-Learning with Technologies for Electronic Documents

    Alistair Mclean & Leila Alem, CSIRO- ICT Centre, Australia

    This special issue explores how to complement traditional e-learning techniques with technologies for electronic documents in order to assist e-learning. We use the phrase "technologies for... More

    p. 5

  2. Supporting Learning & Information Sharing in Natural Resource Management with Technologies for Electronic Documents

    Leila Alem & Alistair McLean, CSIRO ICT, Australia

    Community participation is central to achieving sustainable natural resource management. A prerequisite to informed participation is that community and stakeholder groups have access to different... More

    pp. 7-32

  3. Supporting Learning and Information Sharing in Natural Resource Management with Technologies for Electronic Documents

    Leila Alem & Alistair Mclean, CSIRO- ICT Centre, Australia

    Community participation is central to achieving sustainable natural resource management. A prerequisite to informed participation is that community and stakeholder groups have access to different... More

    pp. 7-20

  4. Designing Agents for Feedback Using the Documents Produced in Learning

    Cat Kutay & Peter Ho, Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    This article reports on research which is based on the premise that the main aim of teaching is to provide appropriate feedback to students as they learn. Humans tutors make this process easier by ... More

    pp. 21-38

  5. A Virtual Hyperbooks Model to Support Collaborative Learning

    Gilles Falquet & Jean-Claude Ziswiler, University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Learning by collaboratively writing scientific hyperbooks requires specific software tools. We present a model for creating, managing, and viewing hyperbooks. This model is comprised of a re-usable... More

    pp. 39-56

  6. Reusing Educational Material for Teaching and Learning: Current Approaches and Directions

    Anne-Marie Vercoustre, INRIA, France; Alistair McLean, CSIRO- ICT Centre, Australia

    In this paper we survey some current approaches in the area of technologies for electronic documents for finding, reusing and adapting documents for teaching or learning purposes. We describe how... More

    pp. 57-68

  7. Use of Relational and Conceptual Graphs in supporting E-Learning tasks

    Ankush Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India; Krishnan Pagalthivarthi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

    The learning process for a user becomes seriously restrictive in trying to discover the relationships between concepts and in searching for a part of concept (called an object) such as a solved... More

    pp. 69-82

  8. Use of Relational and Conceptual Graphs in Supporting E-Learning Tasks

    Ankush Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, India; Krishnan V. Pagalthivarthi, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, India

    The learning process for a user becomes seriously restrictive in trying to discover the relationships between concepts and in searching for a part of concept (called an object) such as a solved... More

    pp. 69-82

  9. Automatically Generating Effective Online Help

    Cecile Paris, Nathalie Colineau & Shijian Lu, CSIRO, Australia; Keith Vander Linden, Calvin College, United States

    Instructional text, and in particular procedural text, is a genre that users rely upon heavily when they are learning new procedures, devices or systems. It is, however, also well-known to be a... More

    pp. 83-103

  10. Automatically Generating Effective Online Help

    Cecile Paris, Nathalie Colineau & Shijian Lu, Csiro, Australia; Keith Vander Linden, Calvin College, United States

    Instructional text, and procedural text in particular, is a genre that users heavily rely upon when they are learning new procedures, devices or systems. It is, however, also well-known to be a... More

    pp. 83-103

  11. Smart Recommendation for an Evolving E-Learning System: Architecture and Experiment

    Tiffany Tang, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

    In this paper, we proposed an evolving e-learning system which can adapt itself both to the learners and the open the web and pointed out the differences of making recommendations in e-learning and... More

    pp. 105-129

  12. Workflow-Based Personalised Document Delivery

    Kalina Yacef, S Holden, Judy Kay & Josiah Poon, University of Sydney, Australia

    New employees in an organisation typically undergo a period of relatively intense training when they commence their employment. Often the quantity of information imparted is too large for the... More

    pp. 131-148

  13. A Fully Automatic Question-Answering System for Intelligent Search in E-Learning Documents

    Ankush Mittal, Sumit Gupta, Praveen Kumar & Shrikant Kashyap, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

    E-learning is a novel method for presenting information to students for the purpose of education. Currently a sea of information is available in the form of power point slides, FAQ and e-books.... More

    pp. 149-166