Evaluating E-Learning from an End User Perspective

2014 ◽  
pp. 259-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Costello
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
End Users ◽  
User Modelling ◽  
End User ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line ◽  
Evaluation Techniques

Evaluating e-learning is an important measure for quality control, which aims to improve the whole e-learning environment through taking into consideration users’ perceptions and needs, as well as participants, stakeholders, and institutions. However, literature does indicate that institutions are only using e-learning as a repository for uploading academic materials, instead of taking into consideration of features and the learner. This chapter examines a variety of evaluation techniques adopted from e-learning, personalised learning, and User Modelling to suggest improvements within the industry to challenge the end users’ perceptions of on-line education.

Evaluating E-Learning from an End User Perspective

2018 ◽  
pp. 818-844
Author(s):  
Robert Costello
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
End Users ◽  
User Modelling ◽  
End User ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line ◽  
Evaluation Techniques

Evaluating e-learning is an important measure for quality control, which aims to improve the whole e-learning environment through taking into consideration users' perceptions and needs, as well as participants, stakeholders, and institutions. However, literature does indicate that institutions are only using e-learning as a repository for uploading academic materials, instead of taking into consideration of features and the learner. This chapter examines a variety of evaluation techniques adopted from e-learning, personalised learning, and User Modelling to suggest improvements within the industry to challenge the end users' perceptions of on-line education.

End User Perspective of E-Learning Using LMS-Like Systems

2018 ◽  
pp. 1936-1970
Author(s):  
Robert Costello
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Management System ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
End User ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line

In literature, e-learning plays an important part in improving the needs of learners and educators, as well as other stakeholders and institutions. However, this research indicates that e-learning is often used as a repository for uploading academic materials, without taking into consideration characteristics of the learner. This investigation examines a variety of techniques adopted from e-learning, adaptive learning and User Modelling to suggest improvements within industry. Throughout the paper, there will be a strong influence on how future PLEs should be designed and tailored to challenge the end users' perception of on-line education to meet the future needs of the learner, the educator and the institution. Focusing on future trends would allow developers to encapsulate learners motivational and learning needs. These aspects would enable designers to improve usability, functionality and reliability. PLEs are not just a collection of applications tailored towards personalisation, they are significantly more important than that. These systems are designed to be a functioned application/platform/management-system that promotes and encourages Personalised Learning. The research found within the case studies have shown that concepts of PLEs have contributed towards the learners' experience.

End User Perspective of e-Learning using LMS-Like Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Costello
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
End User ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line

In literature, e-learning plays an important part in improving the needs of learners and educators, as well as other stakeholders and institutions. However, this research indicates that e-learning is often used as a repository for uploading academic materials, without taking into consideration characteristics of the learner. This investigation examines a variety of techniques adopted from e-learning, adaptive learning and User Modelling to suggest improvements within industry. Throughout the paper, there will be a strong influence on how future PLEs should be designed and tailored to challenge the end users' perception of on-line education to meet the future needs of the learner, the educator and the institution. Focusing on future trends would allow developers to encapsulate learners motivational and learning needs. These aspects would enable designers to improve usability, functionality and reliability. PLEs are not just a collection of applications tailored towards personalisation, they are significantly more important than that. These systems are designed to be a functioned application/platform/management-system that promotes and encourages Personalised Learning. The research found within the case studies have shown that concepts of PLEs have contributed towards the learners' experience.

Harvesting Deep Web Data Through Produser Involvement

The Dark Web ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 175-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kaczmarek ◽  
Dawid Grzegorz Węckowski
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
End Users ◽  
Deep Web ◽  
End User ◽  
Web Data ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Integration Techniques

Acquiring the data from the deep Web is a complex process, which requires understanding of Website navigation issues, data extraction, and integration techniques. Currently existing solutions to automate it are not ready to cover the whole deep Web and require skills and knowledge to be applied in practice. However, several systems were created, which approach the problem by involving end users who are able to bring the data from the deep Web to the surface while creating solutions for their own information needs. The authors study these systems in the chapter from the end user perspective, investigating their interfaces, languages that they expose to end users, and the platforms that accompany the systems to involve end users and allow them to share the results of their work.

Nurses' Attitudes Towards E-Learning for E-health Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Rasmeh Al-Huneiti ◽  
Ziad Hunaiti ◽  
Sultan Al-Masaeed ◽  
Wamadeva Balachandran ◽  
Ebrahim Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
End Users ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Educational Framework ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line

Many studies and authors' own studies suggest that e-learning system is the solution that will establish an educational framework for e-health implementation. Therefore, it is essential in order to achieve success, to assess and evaluate the attitude of the nursing community - who are the end users - towards the possibility of implementing the 'E-learning system' as a solution to educate the nursing community. In this research, a survey captured 52 nurses' attitudes towards an on line e-learning website and showed that nurses have positive attitude.

scholarly journals Effective Coastal Climate Services—An End-User Perspective for Resilient Infrastructure

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Simm ◽  
Ben Gouldby ◽  
Darren Lumbroso ◽  
Tom Matthewson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
End Users ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
End User ◽  
Rcp Scenarios ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Response Information ◽  
Coastal Climate ◽  
Resilient Infrastructure

This paper focusses on identifying the responses to coastal climate change that are of interest for decision-making by end users and the delivery and the necessary communication process for this information. The focus is on representation of climate (response) information in a form that provides sufficient clarity in the midst of uncertainty for end-users who are seeking to develop or maintain resilient infrastructure. The paper recommends that the use of the term climate services in situations unrelated to supporting adaptation to and mitigation of climate change should be avoided. Better investment decisions could be made if Bayesian frameworks were used to assign probabilities to RCP scenarios. Associated predictions need to cover all types of climate change influences not just sea level rise and ideally provide concurrent time series to allow evaluation of dependencies. Guidance on climate information published by official bodies needs to adopt a consistent approach, with a clear narrative that describes the transition from science to guidance. The form in which climate services information is needed for the required end user decisions needs careful thought, including appropriate communication of the associated uncertainties using good practices and experiences from related sectors.

scholarly journals On-line Visualization of Student Facial Emotion in Virtual e-Learning Environment

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asanka D. DHARMAWANSA ◽  
Katsuko T. NAKAHIRA ◽  
Yoshimi FUKUMURA
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line

scholarly journals A Social Web-Based Personalized Learning Environment: Proposing a PLE

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 3420-3424
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Object Representation ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Knowledge Modeling ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Enhanced Learning

The nature of e-learning has been advanced in the manner of how it structures with the advance of Web 2.0 and 3.0. Contemporary educational hypermedia is slowly but surely providing personalised user experience. Research in technology-enhanced learning is now more student oriented, in other words it is as a personalised learning environment. But, according to the progress of projects which has been published, it has been said that personal learning environment is left as a theory and the field has been faded. In this paper we have proposed our model by providing learners with three learning object representation options. In which users will have options to get either up to date content or mostly advanced content first or according to their learning preferences. Domain and knowledge modeling features are also detailed. Finally, empirical results for the affect values of the model were presented.

Mobility of ICT Services in Namibian Institutions: A Literature Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Nikodemus Angula ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
End User ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Participative Methods ◽  
On Line ◽  
World Information

In today's world information and communication technology (ICT) play a crucial role and at the same time, it affects our lives every day. In the current digital age, many organisations across the globe make use of ICT as a tool to facilities teaching and learning (Bosamia, 2018). These technologies have been used to enable end-user to access content materials offered online such as portable devices such smartphone, laptops and so on which operate for information, speed, and communication anywhere and anytime without physically visiting the location where the service is offered. With the use of ICT, e-commerce comes into play which enables end-user to send an email, market shopping to on-line shopping, classroom learning to e-learning where class are conducted over the internet. In the Namibian education systems environment high institutions of learning use traditional methods of teaching which is concerned with the teacher/ lecturer being the controller of the learning environment. Hence, power and responsibility are held by the teacher/lecturer and they play the role of instructor (in the form of lecturers) and decision maker (in regards to curriculum content and specific outcomes through different types of teaching methods such as Teacher-centred methods, learner-centered methods, content-focused methods and interactive/ participative methods which is done using face-to-face mode of teaching and learning without embedding fully ICT infrastructures that support teaching and learning to take place.

Virtual On-Line Classroom for Mobile E-Learning over Next Generation Learning Environment

2010 ◽  
pp. 268-279
Author(s):  
Tin-Yu Wu
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Personal Identification ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Embedded Devices ◽  
Available Bandwidth ◽  
Interactive Classroom ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line ◽  
Online Tests ◽  
Future Learning

This chapter develops an environment for mobile e-Learning with interactive courses, virtual online labs, interactive online tests, lab-exercise training platform and the identification of learning information by next generation tag on the 4th generation mobile communication system. What the Next Generation Learning Environment (NeGL) promotes is “Knowledge Economy” At present, inter-networking has become one of the most popular technologies in Mobile e-Learning for the Next Generation Networks (NGN) environment. This system uses various computer embedded devices to ubiquitously access multimedia information like smart phones and PDAs, and the most important feature is its greater available bandwidth. The future learning mode will include an immediate, virtual, interactive classroom with personal identification that enables learners to learn and interact. (Wu et al. 2008)

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