Knowledge-Based Virtual Education: User-Centred Paradigms

by Claude Ghaoui (Editor), Mitu Jain (Editor), Vivek Bannore (Editor)

Overview

Virtual learning plays an important role in providing academicians, educators and students alike, with advanced learning experiences. At the forefront of these current technologies are knowledge-based systems that assess the environment in which such learning will occur and are adaptive by nature to the individual needs of the user. This monograph provides a wide range of innovative approaches of virtual education with a special emphasis on inter-disciplinary approaches. The book covers a multitude of important issues on the subject of "Innovations in Knowledge-Based Virtual Education ", aiming at researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government. The carefully selected contributions report on research, development and real-world experiences of virtual education such as intelligent virtual teaching, web-based adaptive learning systems, intelligent agents or using multiagent intelligence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642064081
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/24/2010
Series:	Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing , #178
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Just-in-Time Approach to Learning: Arguing the Case for Cost-Effective Knowledge Dissemination.- P-Dinamet: A Web-Based Adaptive Learning System to Assist Learners and Teachers.- Intelligent Agents that Learn to Deliver Online Materials to Students Better: Agent Design, Simulation and Assumptions.- Intelligent Web-Based Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.- Using Multiagent Intelligence to Support Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning.- Intelligent Agents to Improve Adaptivity in a Web-Based Learning Environment.- Intelligent Virtual Teaching.- Developing a User Centered Model for Creating a Virtual Learning Portfolio.- A Didactics Aware Approach to Knowledge Transfer in Web-based Education.