2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

National policies on technology supported education at all levels in Greece are presented, assessed and put in the context of the corresponding European Union policies. View full abstract»

An educational videogame can be defined as a type of software that has a clear educational purpose and content, helping learners to fulfill learning tasks by having them engaged in games [1]. View full abstract»

Summary form only given. The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) has, as its primary responsibility, the promotion and coordination of educational, cultural and scientific activities for Arab countries. In this perspective, a "Plan for the Development of Education in the Arab Countries" (2008-2018) is being implemented by ALECSO. The implementation plan aims at s... View full abstract»

A series of large scale initiatives taking place at European schools the last years will be presented and analyzed. The aim is to frame the problems of large-scale technology supported educational interventions and to establish a research base in this area. View full abstract»

Gesture-based computing has recently received great attention in educational technology. Increasing studies have attempted to integrate its major features-gestures and body motions-into learning activities ranging from physical-related domain to cognitive domain. Despite the rise of gesture-based computing, studies in psychology have long shown that gestures influence the way we learn, think and p... View full abstract»

Virtual laboratories offer access to virtual science experiments and they are recognized as pedagogically effective in increasing students' interest in science, as well as students' motivation and engagement. Moreover, the proliferation of mobile devices has created a growing trend for developing mobile virtual labs. However, the process of designing and developing such mobile apps should be based... View full abstract»

Remote and virtual laboratories aim to overcome typical constraints of traditional laboratories and offer access to laboratory experiments without location and time restrictions. Additionally, the continuous growth of mobile devices' ownership, as well as their increased technical capabilities, have created an emerging trend for supporting mobile access to virtual and remote labs. Existing approac... View full abstract»

In this paper we discuss lessons learnt from research on the educational use of MMOGs with respect to the meaningful pedagogical design of MOOCs. More specifically, we focus on four main areas, namely, motivation, grouping, structure, and assessment, which appear to present certain challenges for the design of MOOCs. View full abstract»

Rising college tuitions are putting increasing financial pressure on families, while at the same time, teachers are repeating tasks like grading and problem creation thousands of times across campuses. Open educational resources (OERs) have the promise of reducing this inefficiency, offering higher quality education at lower cost. However, the adoption of OERs remains limited in part due to issues... View full abstract»

Usability is widely acknowledged in the ICT-related literature as one of the most important factors that can directly affect the overall acceptance and success of any ICT application, tool, software, and platform. Ensuring usability is one of the main challenges of e-learning system developers. This paper describes two case studies designed to (i) evaluate the usability and (ii) assess the impact ... View full abstract»

The CS OER Portal was created with the goal of improving the find ability and increasing the use of open educational resources in Computer Science. In this paper we describe the portal's design principles which exploit the domain specificity of the hosted content and are focused on enhancing the search and navigation in the portal. Distinctive retrieval features are the proposed topical recommenda... View full abstract»

With the explosion of online learning technologies and increasing demands to make learning more accessible and effective for all, personalized and social learning has been a suggested method of addressing these challenges. We present mSchool, an open, scalable educational learning platform which addresses the challenges of learner & community centered open learning space. We study mSchool'... View full abstract»

Video learning analytics are not open to education stakeholders, such as researchers and teachers, because online video platforms do not share the interactions of the users with their systems. Nevertheless, video learning analytics are necessary to all researchers and teachers that need to understand and improve the effectiveness of the video lecture pedagogy. In this paper, we present an open vid... View full abstract»

Nowadays, a large number of online laboratories are available and deployed throughout the world. Most of them are sponsored by universities and often only used by their home institution, because they tend to be dedicated to the needs of their creators. However, in many cases these labs provide successful experiences and other teachers would wish to incorporate them into their classroom activities ... View full abstract»

Nowadays, teachers and students continue to face the problem to find high quality learning objects for learning and teaching. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an innovative approach, which considers Item Response Theory (IRT) for recommending to students or teachers Learning Objects (LOs) of high quality in the context of the Learning Objects Economy, which is a marketplace for sharing an... View full abstract»

The aim of this research work is to assess the degree of usability and usefulness of the Open Discovery Space portal for educational resources according to the perceptions of its users, namely teachers in primary and secondary education. Open Discovery Space has among its aims to serve as an instrument to share, reuse and put together the extended collection of educational content available in Eur... View full abstract»

Social theories of learning demonstrated that collaborative note taking during face-to-face lecture provides important benefits: better learner engagement, collaborative learning, and knowledge building. In this paper we present Tsaap-Notes, an open micro-blogging platform dedicated to collaborative note taking that can be used as a standalone application, or fully integrated into existing virtual... View full abstract»